Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 67
"Babette also wished him farewell; but her voice sounded as mournful as the mew of a little kitten that has lost its mother.
Who acts: Babette, voice, little kitten · What happens: wish, sound, lose, mew · To what, where: Rudy, little kitten
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, voice, little kitten), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
| 2 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 wished | advmod |
| 4 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wished | obj |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 4 wished | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 sounded | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sounded | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 voice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sounded | nsubj |
| 11 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wished | advcl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 mournful | advmod |
| 13 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sounded | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 mew | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mew | det |
| 16 | mew | mew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mournful | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kitten | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kitten | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kitten | amod |
| 20 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mew | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lost | aux |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 kitten | acl:relcl |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | past | Babette | Rudy | farewell property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 2 | sound in a quote | past | Babette's voice | mournful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a little kitten | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mew in a quote | a little kitten | nom mew «event intransitive»: of=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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