Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 84
So he pulled up his slippers at the heel, for he had trodden them down.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: pull up, tread down · To what, where: slippers, heel
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 (Emperor), 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 | _ | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulled | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 heel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heel | det |
| 9 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trodden | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 trodden | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trodden | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 trodden | aux |
| 14 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 pulled | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 trodden | obj |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 trodden | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | Emperor | Emperor's slippers | the heel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme at heel=Asset | |||
| 2 | tread down | past · perfect | Emperor | slippers = slipper | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme |
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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