Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 99
The old oak,--our landmark on the coast!" exclaimed the sailors. "
Who acts: old oak · What happens: exclaim · To what, where: sailors
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old oak), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oak | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oak | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 oak | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 landmark | punct |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 landmark | nmod:poss |
| 7 | landmark | landmark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 coast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coast | det |
| 10 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 landmark | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 landmark | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 landmark | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sailors | det |
| 15 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | the old oak | the sailors | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sailor=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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