Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixth Evening, sentence 9
He emptied the mead horn with the broad silver rim, and murmured a name.
Who acts: turf · What happens: empty, murmur · To what, where: mead horn, name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 emptied | nsubj |
| 2 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horn | det |
| 4 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horn | compound |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 emptied | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 rim | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rim | det |
| 8 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rim | amod |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rim | compound |
| 10 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horn | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 murmured | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 murmured | cc |
| 13 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 emptied | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 murmured | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 emptied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | empty | past | turf | the mead horn | with the broad silver rim | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horn=Patient with rim=Instrument | |||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | turf not said here | a name | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
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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