Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 22
There they sit, these thoughts!" she exclaimed. "
Who acts: worms, thoughts · What happens: sit, exclaim
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worms, thoughts), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sit | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thoughts | punct |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 thoughts | det |
| 6 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 thoughts | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 thoughts | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | worms = worm | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | this thoughts | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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