Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 66
The horse-hair was drawn tightly round her leg--as tightly as if the latter were to be cut off; she was in great pain and terror.
Who acts: hair · What happens: draw, be, cut off · To what, where: horse hair, great pain
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), 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 | 4 hair | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hair | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 horse | punct |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drawn | aux:pass |
| 6 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 6 drawn | advmod |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 leg | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 leg | nmod:poss |
| 10 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 latter | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 latter | mark |
| 13 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 17 latter | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 latter | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 latter | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 latter | det |
| 17 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drawn | conj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 latter | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cut | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cut | aux:pass |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 were | xcomp |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 cut | compound:prt |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 pain | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pain | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 pain | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 pain | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pain | amod |
| 28 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drawn | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 terror | cc |
| 30 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pain | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | the horse hair | round hair's leg; tightly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | latter, tightly property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut off | to-infinitive · passive | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | hair | great pain and terror | 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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