Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 4
Then the girl's father came out and scolded her; and I glided away and thought no more of the matter.
Who acts: father, I · What happens: come out, scold, glide away, think · To what, where: girl, more
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scolded | cc |
| 9 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 scolded | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 glided | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 glided | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 glided | nsubj |
| 14 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 glided | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 glided | conj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 thought | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 matter | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 matter | det |
| 22 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 more | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the girl's father | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | scold | past | the girl's father not said here | girl | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glide away | past | I | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | I not said here | more | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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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