Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 147
They snuffed about the Fir Tree, and rustled among the branches.
Who acts: servants · What happens: snuff, rustle · To what, where: branches
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 snuffed | nsubj |
| 2 | snuffed | snuff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 Tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tree | det |
| 5 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tree | compound |
| 6 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 snuffed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rustled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rustled | cc |
| 9 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 snuffed | conj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 branches | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branches | det |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rustled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snuffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snuff | past | servants = servant | about the Fir Tree | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rustle | past | servants = servant not said here | the branches | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among branch=Location |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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