Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 6
"The little girl could not reach up to the doll, and could not help her down, and that is why she was crying.
Who acts: little girl, that, Moon · What happens: not reach up, not help down, be, cry · To what, where: Moon
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 (little girl, that, Moon), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 girl | amod |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reach | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 reach | advmod |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 reach | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 doll | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doll | det |
| 11 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 help | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 help | advmod |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reach | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 help | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 why | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 why | cc |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 why | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 why | cop |
| 23 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 reach | parataxis |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 crying | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 crying | aux |
| 26 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 why | advcl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach up in a quote | could | the little girl | to the doll | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not help down in a quote | could | the little girl not said here | Moon | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | past · progressive | Moon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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