Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 10

The children were very much frightened at first at the great shaggy animal; each of them crept into a corner, but he found them all out, and smelt at them, but did them no harm. '

Who acts: each, Moon · What happens: frighten, creep, find out, smelt, do · To what, where: children, corner

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 frightened	advmod
6	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 frightened	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 animal	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 animal	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
12	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animal	amod
13	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frightened	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 crept	punct
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 crept	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 each	nmod
18	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 frightened	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crept	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	obj
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 them	nmod:unmarked
28	out	out	ADV	_	25 found	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 smelt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 smelt	cc
31	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 crept	parataxis
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 smelt	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 did	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 did	cc
36	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crept	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 did	obj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 harm	det
39	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 did	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the children		at the great shaggy animal	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	creep	past	each		a corner		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination
3	find out	past	Moon	children = child		out property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	smelt	infinitive				at children = child	tree rules
5	do	past	each not said here	children = child			tree rules

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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