Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 21
"I am at home," she replied; "I am watching my flocks."
Who acts: schoolmaster · What happens: be, reply, watch · To what, where: home, flocks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (schoolmaster), 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 | _ | 5 home | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 home | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 home | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 home | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 watching | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 watching | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 watching | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 watching | aux |
| 14 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 replied | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 watching | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | schoolmaster | home | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | schoolmaster | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch in a quote | present · progressive | schoolmaster | my flocks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=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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