Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 13
I do not think another word was spoken, and they soon quitted the hall.
Who acts: I, windows · What happens: not think, speak, quitt · To what, where: word, hall · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth 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, windows), 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 | 4 think | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoken | aux:pass |
| 8 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 quitted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 quitted | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 quitted | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 quitted | advmod |
| 13 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quitted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · passive | another word | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | quitt | past | windows = window | the hall | soon property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/96/13/