Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 132
And she tucked up her frock, to enable her to run quicker; but the Narcissus gave her a knock on the leg, just as she was going to jump over it.
Who acts: sun, Narcissus · What happens: tuck up, enable, run, give, go, jump · To what, where: frock, sun, knock, leg
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Narcissus), 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 | _ | 3 tucked | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tucked | nsubj |
| 3 | tucked | tuck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 tucked | compound:prt |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 frock | nmod:poss |
| 6 | frock | frock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tucked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 enable | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 enable | mark |
| 9 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tucked | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 enable | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enable | xcomp |
| 13 | quicker | quick | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 run | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Narcissus | det |
| 17 | Narcissus | Narcissus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tucked | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 knock | det |
| 21 | knock | knock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 leg | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 leg | det |
| 24 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 26 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 going | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 going | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 going | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 going | aux |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 gave | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 jump | mark |
| 32 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 going | xcomp |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 jump | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck up | past | sun | sun's frock | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enable | to-infinitive | sun not said here | sun | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | to-infinitive | sun not said here | quick property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the Narcissus | a knock | sun | the leg | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient knock=Theme on leg=Asset | ||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | Narcissus | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | jump | to-infinitive | Narcissus not said here | knock | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |
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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