Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 74
And then he gave the box a good kick with his foot, and pulled both the roses up.
Who acts: sun · What happens: give, pull up · To what, where: box, roses
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gave | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kick | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kick | amod |
| 9 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kick | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pulled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pulled | cc |
| 15 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 16 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 18 roses | cc:preconj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roses | det |
| 18 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pulled | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 pulled | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | sun | the box | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent box=Recipient kick=Theme | |||
| 2 | pull up | past | sun not said here | the roses | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Theme |
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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