Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 5
Babette screamed, and started back, while her eyes wandered from Rudy to the bird in astonishment.
Who acts: Babette, eyes · What happens: scream, start back, wander · To what, where: bird, Rudy
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 (Babette, 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 | Babette | Babette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 screamed | nsubj |
| 2 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 started | cc |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 screamed | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 started | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wandered | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 wandered | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wandered | nsubj |
| 11 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 screamed | conj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Rudy | case |
| 13 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wandered | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bird | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wandered | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 astonishment | case |
| 18 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wandered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | Babette | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | start back | past | Babette not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | wander | past | Babette's eyes | the bird | Rudy | in astonishment | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bird=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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