Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 61

“Yes, that it has,” said she; and she now related many pretty things out of Holberg's comedies, and about Waldemar and Absalon; but all at once she cowered together, and her head began shaking backwards and forwards, and she looked as she were going to make a spring.

Who acts: apron, grass, head · What happens: have, say, relate, cower, begin, shake · To what, where: many things, comedies, Waldemar · 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 (apron, grass, head), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 has	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 has	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 related	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 related	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 related	nsubj
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 related	advmod
15	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 things	amod
17	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	16 many	advmod
18	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 related	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	23 comedies	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 comedies	case
21	Holberg	Holberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 comedies	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Holberg	case
23	comedies	comedy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 related	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Waldemar	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Waldemar	cc
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 Waldemar	case
27	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 related	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Absalon	cc
29	Absalon	Absalon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Waldemar	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 cowered	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 cowered	cc
32	all	all	ADV	_	36 cowered	advmod
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 all	obl
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cowered	nsubj
36	cowered	cower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 Waldemar	acl:relcl
37	together	together	ADV	_	36 cowered	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 began	cc
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 head	nmod:poss
41	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cowered	conj
43	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 began	xcomp
44	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	43 shaking	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 forwards	cc
46	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	44 backwards	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 looked	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 looked	cc
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 looked	nsubj
50	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 cowered	conj
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 going	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 going	nsubj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 going	aux
54	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 looked	advcl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 make	mark
56	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 going	xcomp
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 spring	det
58	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 make	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	apron					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	grass					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	relate	past	grass	many things	Holberg's comedies	now	about Waldemar and Absalon	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
4	cower	past	grass	Waldemar and Absalon not said here			all, together property	tree rules
5	begin	past	grass's head					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	shake	gerund	grass's head not said here				backwards property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	look	past	grass					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	go	past · progressive	grass					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	make	to-infinitive	grass not said here			spring		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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