Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 103
Skins, skins, who'll buy skins?" he cried, as he went through the streets.
Who acts: Skins, Great · What happens: buy, cry, go · To what, where: skins, streets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skins, Great), 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 | Skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 skins | punct |
| 3 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Skins | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 buy | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | aux |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Skins | appos |
| 8 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 buy | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 went | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | conj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 streets | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 streets | det |
| 19 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | future | Skins and skins | skins | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Skins and skins | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | Great | the streets | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_Location |
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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