Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 15
Already she lifted her hand to pull the door-bell--a hare's foot fastened to a string formed the bell-handle of the imperial palace.
Who acts: beam, foot, string · What happens: lift, pull, fasten, form · To what, where: hand, door bell, bell handle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beam, foot, string), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pull | mark |
| 7 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lifted | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bell | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bell | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 door | punct |
| 11 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 fastened | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 hare | case |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fastened | nsubj |
| 17 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 18 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 21 formed | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 string | det |
| 20 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 formed | nsubj |
| 21 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fastened | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 handle | det |
| 23 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 handle | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bell | punct |
| 25 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 formed | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 28 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 palace | amod |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 handle | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | beam | beam's hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull | to-infinitive | beam not said here | the door bell | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fasten | past | a hare's foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | form | past | a string | the bell handle of the imperial palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location handle=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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