Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 104
Suddenly he fancied he heard feet outside going pit-a-pat.
Who acts: chamber · What happens: fancy, hear, go · To what, where: feet, pit
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamber), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 fancied | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fancied | nsubj |
| 3 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fancied | ccomp |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 heard | advcl |
| 9 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 pat | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pat | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 a | punct |
| 13 | pat | pat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pit | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | chamber | suddenly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | chamber | feet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | chamber not said here | pit and a pat | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pit=Theme |
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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