Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 5
And then she told a story that made the feathers on the other hens bristle up, and the cock's comb fall.
Who acts: many, story, other hens · What happens: tell, make, bristle up · To what, where: story, feathers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, story, other hens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 told | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feathers | det |
| 10 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 bristle | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hens | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hens | amod |
| 14 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bristle | nsubj |
| 15 | bristle | bristle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 bristle | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fall | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fall | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cock | det |
| 20 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 comb | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 cock | case |
| 22 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fall | compound |
| 23 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | many | a story | then | comb fall obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||
| 2 | make | past | a story | the feathers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feather=Product | ||||
| 3 | bristle up | present | the other hens | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
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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