Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 198
One of the youngest ran and tore off the golden star.
Who acts: One · What happens: run, tore off · To what, where: golden star
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 (One), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 youngest | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youngest | det |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 ran | obl |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tore | cc |
| 7 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 tore | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 star | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 star | amod |
| 11 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tore | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | One | of the youngest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of young=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | tore off | past | One not said here | the golden star | 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: «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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