Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 89
"No, leave it alone," cried the sexton from within the chest; "let me out first."
Who acts: you, sexton · What happens: leave, cry, let out · To what, where: chest, sexton · 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 (you, sexton), 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 leave | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 leave | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sexton | det |
| 11 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 chest | case |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 chest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chest | det |
| 15 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 let | compound:prt |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 let | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | imperative | you not said here | chest | alone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the sexton | the chest | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let out in a quote | infinitive | the sexton not said here | the sexton = sexton | first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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