Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 12
"Good-morning," they cried to the sentry at the town-gate.
Who acts: strangers · What happens: cry · To what, where: sentry, town gate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strangers), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sentry | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sentry | det |
| 11 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gate | det |
| 14 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 town | punct |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | strangers = stranger | the sentry | the town gate | morning | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sentry=Recipient |
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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