Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 100

And then he touched Hjalmar with his magic wand, whereupon he became less and less, until at last he was not longer than a little finger. "

Who acts: Ole · What happens: touch, become, be · To what, where: Hjalmar

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole), 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 touched	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 touched	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 touched	nsubj
4	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 touched	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 wand	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wand	nmod:poss
8	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wand	amod
9	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touched	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct
11	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	13 became	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 touched	conj
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 became	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 less	cc
16	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 less	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 last	punct
18	until	until	ADP	_	20 last	case
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 finger	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 finger	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 longer	advmod
24	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 finger	advmod
25	than	than	ADP	_	28 finger	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 finger	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 finger	amod
28	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 last	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 touched	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past	Ole	Hjalmar	then	with Ole's magic wand	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hjalmar=Experiencer with wand=Instrument
2	become	past	Ole			last, less, whereupon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	Ole			than a little finger; long property	tree rules

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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