Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 131

Stop! stop!" and the words came quite clear, though they were like the croak of a frog, or the wail of a bird. "

Who acts: you, words, waves, bird · What happens: stop, come, be, wail · To what, where: stop · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, words, waves, bird), 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	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 stop	punct
3	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 words	det
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 clear	advmod
11	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 came	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 croak	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 croak	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 croak	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 croak	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 croak	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 croak	det
18	croak	croak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 frog	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 frog	det
21	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 croak	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wail	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 wail	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wail	det
25	wail	wail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 croak	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 bird	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wail	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	stop		tree rules
2	come in a quote	past	the words		clear property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	waves = wave		like the croak or the wail of a bird; of a frog	tree rules
4	wail in a quote		a bird			nom wail «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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