Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 98

They tease him; the bubble bursts!

Who acts: dog, bubble · What happens: tease, burst · To what, where: Convolvulus

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 (dog, bubble), 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 tease	nsubj
2	tease	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tease	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 bursts	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bubble	det
6	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bursts	nsubj
7	bursts	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tease	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 tease	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	present	dog	Convolvulus					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	burst	present	the bubble						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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