Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IX. the Ice Maiden, sentence 35
I know them all, and their thoughts, those spirits of strength!" and again she laughed.
Who acts: I, thoughts, Millions · What happens: know, laugh, think · To what, where: Millions · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, thoughts, Millions), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laughed | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spirits | punct |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 spirits | det |
| 11 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thoughts | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 strength | case |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spirits | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 thoughts | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thoughts | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 again | cc |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 laughed | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laughed | nsubj |
| 19 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 know | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | Millions = million | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh in a quote | past | Millions's thoughts and that spirits of strength | again | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think | Millions = million | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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