Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 47
So one of the court-ladies must run in; however, she drew on wooden slippers first.
Who acts: one, piece · What happens: run, draw · To what, where: wooden slippers
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, piece), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 run | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ladies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ladies | det |
| 5 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ladies | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 court | punct |
| 7 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | aux |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 12 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 drew | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 however | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 slippers | case |
| 17 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 slippers | amod |
| 18 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drew | obl |
| 19 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 drew | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | must | one of the court ladies | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | piece | wooden slippers | first, however property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on slipper=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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