Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 37
Many a time I got up in the night and looked if the weathercock had turned; it turned often, but you did not return.
Who acts: I, weathercock, you · What happens: get up, look, turn, not return
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, weathercock, you), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 night | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 turned | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 weathercock | det |
| 14 | weathercock | weathercock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | aux |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 looked | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | parataxis |
| 20 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 turned | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 return | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 return | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 return | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 return | advmod |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 turned | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | I | night; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | look | past | I not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | turn a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | the weathercock | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | past | weathercock | often property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not return | past · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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