Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 4, sentence 95
The roof reached to the ground; and the door was so low, that the family were obliged to creep upon their stomachs when they went in or out.
Who acts: roof, door, bread · What happens: reach, be, oblige, creep, go · To what, where: family, stomachs
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof, door, bread), 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 | 2 roof | det |
| 2 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 low | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 low | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 low | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 low | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 low | advmod |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reached | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 obliged | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 obliged | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 family | det |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 obliged | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 obliged | aux:pass |
| 19 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 low | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 creep | mark |
| 21 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 stomachs | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 stomachs | nmod:poss |
| 24 | stomachs | stomach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 creep | obl |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 went | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 obliged | advcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 out | cc |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 in | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the roof | to the ground | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the door | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | the family | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | creep | to-infinitive | bread's stomachs | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stomach=Trajectory | |||||
| 5 | go | past | bread | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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