Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 14

They came nearer and nearer, and stretched out their hands towards the tree on which the doll sat; they laughed scornfully, and pointed at her with their fingers.

Who acts: gnomes, doll · What happens: come, stretch out, sit, laugh, point · To what, where: hands, tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnomes, doll), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 came	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nearer	cc
5	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 nearer	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stretched	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stretched	cc
8	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 came	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 stretched	compound:prt
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stretched	obj
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stretched	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sat	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 doll	det
18	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tree	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 laughed	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laughed	nsubj
22	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
23	scornfully	scornfully	ADV	_	22 laughed	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pointed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 pointed	cc
26	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 laughed	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 her	case
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 pointed	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 fingers	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fingers	nmod:poss
31	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 pointed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	gnomes = gnome			near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stretch out	participle	gnomes = gnome not said here	gnomes's hands		towards the tree	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient towards tree=Recipient
3	sit	past	the doll		the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
4	laugh	past	gnomes = gnome			scornfully property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	point	past	gnomes = gnome not said here			at doll; with gnomes's fingers	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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