Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 13
It is getting into a rage; how its eyes glare.
Who acts: basket, eyes · What happens: get, glare · To what, where: rage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (basket, eyes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 getting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | aux |
| 3 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 rage | det |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 getting | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 glare | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 glare | advmod |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glare | nsubj |
| 11 | glare | glare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 getting | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | basket | a rage | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into rage=Destination | ||||
| 2 | glare | present | basket's eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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