Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 5
But the brothers of the little girl, those great naughty boys, had set the doll high up in the branches of a tree and had run away.
What happens: set, run away · To what, where: brothers, branches
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brothers | det |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girl | amod |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brothers | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 boys | punct |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 boys | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boys | amod |
| 11 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boys | amod |
| 12 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 girl | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brothers | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 doll | det |
| 17 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 18 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 up | advmod |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 branches | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 branches | det |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 branches | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 run | cc |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 run | aux |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 set | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 run | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the brothers of the little girl and that great naughty boys | the branches of a tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme doll=Destination | ||||
| 2 | run away | past · perfect | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: «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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