Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 48
Hush!" said Little Claus to his sack, at the same time treading upon it again, till it squeaked louder than before.
Who acts: Hush, same time · What happens: say, tread, squeak · To what, where: sack, Hush · 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 (Hush, same time), 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 | Hush | hush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hush | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hush | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Claus | amod |
| 6 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sack | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sack | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 15 | treading | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 time | acl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 treading | obl |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 treading | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 squeaked | punct |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 squeaked | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 squeaked | nsubj |
| 22 | squeaked | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 23 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 squeaked | xcomp |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 before | case |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 louder | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hush | Claus's sack | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sack=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tread in a quote | gerund | the same time not said here | Hush | again | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | squeak in a quote | past | Hush | loud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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