Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 20

“To see the Kjoge hens,” is an expression similar to “showing a child London,” which is said to be done by taking his head in both bands, and so lifting him off the ground.

Who acts: expression · What happens: see, be, show, say, do, take · To what, where: Kjoge hens, child, head, bands, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (expression), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 similar	compound
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hens	det
5	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hens	compound
6	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 similar	cop
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 expression	det
11	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 similar	nsubj
12	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	SCONJ	_	15 showing	mark
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 showing	punct
15	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 similar	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 showing	obj
18	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 child	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ”	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 similar	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 said	nsubj:pass
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 said	aux:pass
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 similar	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 done	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 done	aux:pass
26	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 said	xcomp
27	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 taking	mark
28	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 done	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taking	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 bands	case
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 bands	det
33	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 taking	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 lifting	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 lifting	cc
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 lifting	advmod
37	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 similar	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lifting	obj
39	off	off	ADP	_	41 ground	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 ground	det
41	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lifting	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 lifting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	to-infinitive		the Kjoge hens				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hen=Stimulus
2	is	present	a expression				similar property	tree rules
3	show in a quote	gerund	a expression not said here		a child			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	present · passive						tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive · passive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»
6	take	gerund		London's head		both bands		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Value in band=Location
7	lift	gerund	a expression not said here	child		the ground		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme off ground=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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