Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 75
He now crept on hands and feet through a butcher's shop; at least on every side, and above and below, there was nought but flesh.
Who acts: sun, nought · What happens: creep, be · To what, where: hands
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, nought), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 crept | advmod |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crept | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feet | cc |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hands | conj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 shop | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 butcher | det |
| 10 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shop | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 butcher | case |
| 12 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 least | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 least | case |
| 15 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 crept | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 side | det |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 least | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 above | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 above | cc |
| 21 | above | above | ADV | _ | 3 crept | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 below | cc |
| 23 | below | below | ADV | _ | 21 above | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 27 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 26 was | nsubj |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 flesh | cc |
| 29 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nought | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | sun | hands and feet | now | through a butcher's shop; at least; above property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | be | past | nought | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/7/75/