Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 160
Only half a grave," a voice wailed, and fled away.
Who acts: voice · What happens: wail, flee away · To what, where: 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 (voice), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 grave | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 grave | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 grave | det |
| 4 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wailed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grave | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wailed | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wailed | nsubj |
| 9 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fled | cc |
| 12 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wailed | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 fled | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wail in a quote | past | a voice | half grave | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flee away in a quote | past | a voice not said here | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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