Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 200

They trembled and cried, and wanted to jump down from the horse, but they could not get free, for they seemed fastened to the seat.

Who acts: books · What happens: tremble, cry, want, jump down, not get, fasten · To what, where: books · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (books), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 trembled	nsubj
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cried	cc
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 trembled	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wanted	cc
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 jump	mark
9	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wanted	xcomp
10	down	down	ADV	_	9 jump	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jump	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 get	advmod
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trembled	parataxis
20	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 get	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 fastened	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 fastened	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fastened	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fastened	aux:pass
25	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 get	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 seat	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 seat	det
28	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fastened	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tremble	past	books = book			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	books = book not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	want	past				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	jump down not said to happen	to-infinitive			from the horse; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory
5	not get	could	books = book		free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	fasten	past · passive		books = book	to the seat	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to seat=Co-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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