Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 128

Out of the soft earth something was sticking up.

What happens: stick up

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Out	out	ADP	_	5 earth	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 earth	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 earth	det
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 earth	amod
5	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	obl
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sticking	aux
8	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 something	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 sticking	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 something	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick up	past · progressive							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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