Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 22
"Your flocks!" he exclaimed; "where do they find pasture?
Who acts: flocks · What happens: exclaim, find · To what, where: pasture · 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 (flocks), 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 | _ | 3 flocks | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 3 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 flocks | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flocks | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 7 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 find | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 exclaimed | conj |
| 14 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Your flocks | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | present · do-support | flocks = flock | pasture | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Topic |
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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