Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 62

The children were playing with an apple; they shook the apple, and heard the pips rattling in it.

Who acts: children, pips · What happens: play, shake, hear, rattle · To what, where: apple, pips

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, pips), 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	4 playing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 apple	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 apple	det
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 shook	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shook	nsubj
10	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 apple	det
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shook	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shook	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pips	det
17	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 heard	obj
18	rattling	rattle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 pips	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rattling	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	the children			with a apple	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with apple=Theme
2	shake	past	children = child	the apple			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
3	hear	past	children = child not said here	the pips			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer pip=Stimulus
4	rattle	gerund	the pips not said here		apple		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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