Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 63
A great black raven darted down in front of her on the high road, and croaked dismally.
Who acts: great black raven · What happens: dart down, croak · To what, where: great black raven, front
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 (great black raven), 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 | 4 raven | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 raven | amod |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 raven | amod |
| 4 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 croaked | nsubj |
| 5 | darted | dart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 raven | acl |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 darted | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 front | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 road | amod |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 darted | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 croaked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 croaked | cc |
| 17 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | dismally | dismally | ADV | _ | 17 croaked | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 croaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dart down | participle | a great black raven not said here | front of raven | on the high road | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | croak | past | a great black raven | dismally property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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