Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 37
"MARCH, March," the fourth called after him, slapping him on the shoulder, "don't you smell something?
Who acts: fourth, you · What happens: call, slap, not smell · To what, where: fourth, man, something · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fourth, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 MARCH | punct |
| 2 | MARCH | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fourth | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 March | punct |
| 4 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 MARCH | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 MARCH | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fourth | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fourth | det |
| 8 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fourth | acl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slapping | punct |
| 13 | slapping | slap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 fourth | acl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slapping | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shoulder | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shoulder | det |
| 17 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slapping | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 smell | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 smell | punct |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 smell | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 smell | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 smell | nsubj |
| 23 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fourth | parataxis |
| 24 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 smell | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 fourth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: ask | participle | the fourth not said here | after man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slap | gerund | the fourth not said here | man | on the shoulder | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument on shoulder=Patient | |||
| 3 | not smell in a quote | infinitive · do-support | you | something | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
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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