Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 133
"Hallo!" cried Little Claus, rushing out of the door, and seizing hold of the landlord by the throat; "you have killed my grandmother; see, here is a great hole in her forehead."
Who acts: Hallo · What happens: cry, rush out, seize, kill, see, be · To what, where: Little Claus, door, hold, you, great hole, forehead · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hallo), 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 | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 2 | Hallo | Hallo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hallo | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Claus | amod |
| 7 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushing | punct |
| 9 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seizing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seizing | cc |
| 16 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 rushing | conj |
| 17 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seizing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 landlord | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 landlord | det |
| 20 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | nmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 throat | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 throat | det |
| 23 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seizing | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 killed | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 killed | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 killed | aux |
| 28 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | conj |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 killed | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 here | punct |
| 34 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 see | advmod |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 hole | cop |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hole | det |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hole | amod |
| 38 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 forehead | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 41 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hole | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 hole | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 hole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Hallo | Little Claus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush out | gerund | Hallo not said here | the door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme door=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | Hallo not said here | hold of the landlord | by the throat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 4 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer grandmother=Result | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | infinitive | Hallo not said here | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | a great hole | Hallo's forehead | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hold | the landlord | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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