Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 3
And the cannons of the old castle answer "Boom," which means "Many thanks."
Who acts: Boom · What happens: mean · To what, where: Many thanks
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Boom | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cannons | det |
| 3 | cannons | cannon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Boom | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 answer | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 answer | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answer | amod |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answer | compound |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cannons | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Boom | punct |
| 10 | Boom | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Boom | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Boom | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Boom | parataxis |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 thanks | punct |
| 16 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thanks | amod |
| 17 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 means | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 thanks | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 thanks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Boom | Many thanks | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thanks=Topic |
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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