Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 143
Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along," said one of the younger girls.
Who acts: old wooden shoe · What happens: look, be, sail, say · To what, where: old wooden shoe, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old wooden shoe), 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 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shoe | punct |
| 3 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 8 shoe | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shoe | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shoe | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoe | amod |
| 7 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoe | amod |
| 8 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 9 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 shoe | acl |
| 10 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 sailing | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailing | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sailing | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 said | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 girls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girls | det |
| 17 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 girls | amod |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a old wooden shoe | yonder property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sail | gerund | a old wooden shoe not said here | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | a old wooden shoe | one of the younger girls | 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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