Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 6
There,' she exclaimed, 'there!' and she knelt and kissed the purple carpet.
Who acts: many · What happens: exclaim, kneel, kiss · To what, where: purple carpet
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 (many), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 exclaimed | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 3 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 exclaimed | advmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 knelt | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knelt | nsubj |
| 13 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kissed | cc |
| 15 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 exclaimed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 carpet | det |
| 17 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 carpet | amod |
| 18 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kissed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | many | there; there | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past | many | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kiss | past | many not said here | the purple carpet | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Co-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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