Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 72
"Mr. de Boots, hearing this, kicks up, jingles his spurs, and knocks down three of the side-scenes."
Who acts: MR. · What happens: hear, kick up, jingle, knock down, spur · To what, where: this, Boots, spurs, three
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MR.), 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 | _ | 4 Boots | punct |
| 2 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Boots | nmod:desc |
| 3 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mr. | flat |
| 4 | Boots | Boot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 kicks | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearing | punct |
| 6 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Boots | conj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kicks | punct |
| 9 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 kicks | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jingles | punct |
| 12 | jingles | jingle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kicks | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 spurs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 jingles | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocks | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knocks | cc |
| 17 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kicks | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 knocks | compound:prt |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 knocks | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 scenes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 scenes | det |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scenes | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 side | punct |
| 24 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 three | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 knocks | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 kicks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | kick up in a quote | present | Boots Mr. | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | jingle in a quote | present | MR.'s spurs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spur=Theme | |||||
| 4 | knock down in a quote | present | three of the side scenes | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent three=Patient | |||||
| 5 | spur in a quote | MR. | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=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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