Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 90
"Oh," exclaimed Little Claus, pretending to be frightened, "he is in there still, is he?
Who acts: Little Claus, Claus · What happens: exclaim, pretend, frighten, be · To what, where: water · 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 (Little Claus, Claus), 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 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 exclaimed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Claus | amod |
| 7 | Claus | Claus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pretending | punct |
| 9 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 exclaimed | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 frightened | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 frightened | aux:pass |
| 12 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pretending | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 there | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 there | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 there | case |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 exclaimed | advmod |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 he | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 still | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 he | cop |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 there | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Little Claus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | Little Claus not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | frighten | to-infinitive · passive | Little Claus not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Claus | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | water | still | 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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