Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Leap-frog, sentence 8
The fact was, he had been just brought out of the fields, and put in a pasteboard house, three stories high, all made of court-cards, with the colored side inwards; and doors and windows cut out of the body of the Queen of Hearts.
Who acts: fact, doors · What happens: be, put, make, color, cut out · To what, where: fields, pasteboard house, all, body
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Leap-frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, doors), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fact | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 brought | cop |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fields | det |
| 13 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 brought | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 19 | pasteboard | pasteboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 house | compound |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stories | punct |
| 22 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 stories | nummod |
| 23 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 high | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 house | amod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 made | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 put | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 cards | case |
| 29 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cards | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 court | punct |
| 31 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 side | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 side | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 side | det |
| 35 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 side | amod |
| 36 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 made | obl |
| 37 | inwards | inwards | ADV | _ | 36 side | advmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 cut | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 cut | cc |
| 40 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 cut | nsubj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 windows | cc |
| 42 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 doors | conj |
| 43 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | parataxis |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 body | case |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 body | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 body | det |
| 47 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 cut | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Queen | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Queen | det |
| 50 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 body | nmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Hearts | case |
| 52 | Hearts | Heart | PROPN | Number=Plur | 50 Queen | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the fact | the fields | bring property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | put | participle | a pasteboard house | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in house=Destination | |||||
| 3 | make | participle · passive | all | of court cards; with the colored side | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | cut out | present | doors and windows | the body of the Queen of Hearts | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector body=Eventuality |
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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