Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 73
"Only one more look," she begged; "but one short moment more."
Who acts: one more look · What happens: beg
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one more look), 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 | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 one | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 look | nummod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 look | amod |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 begged | nsubj |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 moment | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 moment | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 moment | nummod |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obl |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 moment | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 moment | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | one more look | moment | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: 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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