Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 126
A grave! dig me a grave!" was repeated quite loud.
Who acts: grave · What happens: dig, repeat · To what, where: me, grave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 grave | det |
| 2 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repeated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dig | punct |
| 4 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grave | acl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 dig | obj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 grave | det |
| 7 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dig | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 dig | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dig | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 repeated | aux:pass |
| 11 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 loud | advmod |
| 13 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 11 repeated | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | infinitive | a grave not said here | me | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary grave=Result | ||||
| 2 | repeat in a quote | past · passive | a grave | loud property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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