Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 38
"Oh, dear," sighed Little Claus from the top of the shed, as he saw all the good things disappear.
Who acts: Claus, good things · What happens: sigh, see, disappear · To what, where: Little Claus, top
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 (Claus, good things), 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 | _ | 4 dear | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 dear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sighed | punct |
| 7 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dear | parataxis |
| 8 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Claus | amod |
| 9 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sighed | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sighed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 shed | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shed | det |
| 15 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sighed | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 things | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 things | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 things | amod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 disappear | nsubj |
| 24 | disappear | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | Little Claus | the top of the shed | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claus=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Claus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | disappear | present | all good things | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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