Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 9
I saw it quite plainly, for I looked through a hole in the hen-house wall.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, look · To what, where: bolt
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 plainly | advmod |
| 5 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 looked | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wall | det |
| 15 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hen | punct |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wall | compound |
| 18 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | bolt | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | past | I | through a hole in the house wall | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=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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