Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 62
And he seized hold of the creeping-plants, and the roots of trees--climbed up the moist stones where the water-snakes were writhing and the toads were croaking--and he gained the summit before the sun had quite gone down.
Who acts: tone, water snakes, toads, sun · What happens: seize, climb up, be, croak, gain, go down · To what, where: hold, roots, writhing, summit, creeping plants
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tone, water snakes, toads, sun), 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 seized | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 plants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plants | det |
| 7 | creeping | creeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plants | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 creeping | punct |
| 9 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hold | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 climbed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roots | det |
| 13 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 roots | nmod |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 climbed | punct |
| 17 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seized | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 climbed | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stones | det |
| 20 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stones | amod |
| 21 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 climbed | obj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 writhing | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 snakes | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 snakes | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 water | punct |
| 26 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 writhing | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 writhing | cop |
| 28 | writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stones | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 croaking | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 toads | det |
| 31 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 croaking | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 croaking | aux |
| 33 | croaking | croak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 writhing | conj |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 gained | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 gained | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 gained | nsubj |
| 37 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 summit | det |
| 39 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gained | obj |
| 40 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 45 gone | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sun | det |
| 42 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 gone | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 gone | aux |
| 44 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 45 gone | advmod |
| 45 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 gained | advcl |
| 46 | down | down | ADP | _ | 45 gone | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | tone | hold of the creeping plants | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb up | participle · passive | the roots of trees | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the water snakes | writhing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | croak | past · progressive | the toads | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | gain | past | tone | the summit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go down | past · perfect | the sun | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | hold | the creeping plants | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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