Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 74
"Oh," cried he, springing backwards, "I saw him, and he is exactly like our sexton.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: cry, spring, see, be · To what, where: farmer · 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 (farmer), 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 | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 springing | punct |
| 8 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 9 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 8 springing | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 springing | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sexton | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sexton | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sexton | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sexton | cop |
| 19 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 22 sexton | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 sexton | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sexton | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | farmer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | spring | gerund | farmer not said here | backwards property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | farmer | farmer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | farmer | like our sexton; exactly property | tree rules |
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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