Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 148
"Tweet, tweet," sounded over her head suddenly.
Who acts: Tweet · What happens: sound · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tweet), 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 | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 2 | Tweet | Tweet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tweet | punct |
| 4 | tweet | tweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tweet | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tweet | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
| 7 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sounded | obl |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 sounded | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | Tweet and tweet | child's head | suddenly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/148/