Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 42
Presently they heard the frightful scream again, and Christina said, "We shall get into trouble about that pig."
Who acts: mouths, Christina, We · What happens: hear, say, get · To what, where: frightful scream, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouths, Christina, We), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scream | det |
| 5 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scream | amod |
| 6 | scream | scream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 heard | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 get | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | aux |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 trouble | case |
| 18 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 19 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 pig | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 pig | det |
| 21 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trouble | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | mouths = mouth | the frightful scream | again | presently property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer scream=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Christina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | shall | We | trouble about that pig | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |
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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