Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 67
The boys came running up and seized her, and in no gentle way either.
Who acts: boys · What happens: come, run up, seize · To what, where: hair
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 (boys), 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 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 running | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seized | cc |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 way | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 way | det |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | parataxis |
| 15 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 way | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the boys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run up | gerund | the boys not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | the boys not said here | hair | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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