Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 104
Then Sophy raised himself, and looked round quite astonished, "There must be a ball here to-night," said Sophy. "
Who acts: Sophy · What happens: raise, look round, be, say · To what, where: knocking, ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sophy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 raised | advmod |
| 2 | Sophy | Sophy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 raised | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | conj |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 astonished | advmod |
| 10 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looked | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ball | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 be | punct |
| 13 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 be | expl |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ball | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ball | det |
| 17 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obl |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ball | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 here | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | parataxis |
| 25 | Sophy | sophy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Sophy | knocking | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | look round | past | Sophy not said here | astonished, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | a ball | here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Sophy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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