Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 96

The little black dog, as light as a soap-bubble, jumps up on his hind legs to try to get into the swing.

Who acts: little black dog · What happens: jump up, try, get · To what, where: hind legs, swing

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 (little black dog), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jumps	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 light	case
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dog	conj
8	as	as	ADP	_	12 bubble	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bubble	det
10	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bubble	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 soap	punct
12	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 light	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dog	punct
14	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 jumps	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 legs	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 legs	nmod:poss
18	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 legs	amod
19	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 jumps	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 try	mark
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 jumps	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 try	xcomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 swing	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 swing	det
26	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 jumps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	jump up	present	the little black dog and light as a soap bubble	brother's hind legs	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
2	try	to-infinitive	the little black dog and light as a soap bubble not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the little black dog and light as a soap bubble not said here	the swing	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into swing=Destination

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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