Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 15
"An organist!" exclaimed the lady, who had never heard the word 'obelisk.'
Who acts: organist, lady · What happens: exclaim, not hear · To what, where: lady, obelisk
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (organist, lady), 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 organist | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 organist | det |
| 3 | organist | organist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 organist | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 organist | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lady | det |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heard | aux |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 heard | advmod |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 lady | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obelisk | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 word | case |
| 17 | obelisk | obelisk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | a organist | the lady | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not hear | past · perfect | the lady | the word's obelisk | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer obelisk=Stimulus |
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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