Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 22
Then the uncle sang a French song, and cried, "Hurrah! long live Napoleon Buonaparte."
Who acts: uncle · What happens: sing, cry · To what, where: French song, Hurrah
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 uncle | det |
| 3 | uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 song | det |
| 6 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 song | amod |
| 7 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cried | cc |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hurrah | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hurrah | punct |
| 13 | Hurrah | Hurrah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hurrah | punct |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 live | advmod |
| 16 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cried | advcl |
| 17 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Buonaparte | compound |
| 18 | Buonaparte | Buonaparte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 live | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the uncle | a French song | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the uncle not said here | Hurrah | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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