Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 7
They poured out the liquor, and made the most friendly gesticulations; while a cold perspiration trickled down the back of the poor Councillor.
Who acts: maidens, cold perspiration · What happens: pour out, make, trickle down · To what, where: liquor, friendly gesticulations, back
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, cold perspiration), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 poured | nsubj |
| 2 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 poured | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 liquor | det |
| 5 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 poured | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 poured | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gesticulations | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 friendly | advmod |
| 11 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gesticulations | amod |
| 12 | gesticulations | gesticulation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 perspiration | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 perspiration | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 perspiration | det |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 perspiration | amod |
| 17 | perspiration | perspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 18 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 perspiration | acl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 back | det |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trickled | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Councillor | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Councillor | det |
| 24 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Councillor | amod |
| 25 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 back | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour out | past | maidens = maiden | the liquor | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | maidens = maiden not said here | the friendly gesticulations | a cold perspiration obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gesticulation=Product | |||
| 3 | trickle down | participle | a cold perspiration not said here | the back of the poor Councillor | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location back=Source |
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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