Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 2
She sits and cries, and he thinks no more about her."
Who acts: cat, Rudy · What happens: sit, cry, think · To what, where: more
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, Rudy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sits | nsubj |
| 2 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cries | cc |
| 4 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thinks | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thinks | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thinks | nsubj |
| 8 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sits | conj |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 thinks | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 more | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | cat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | cat not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Rudy | more | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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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