Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 3
Then he creeps behind them, and blows softly upon their necks, till their heads begin to droop.
Who acts: Oie, heads · What happens: creep, blow, begin, droop
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 (Oie, heads), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 creeps | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 creeps | nsubj |
| 3 | creeps | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 creeps | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blows | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blows | cc |
| 8 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 creeps | conj |
| 9 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 8 blows | advmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 necks | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 necks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 blows | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 begin | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 begin | mark |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 begin | nsubj |
| 17 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blows | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 droop | mark |
| 19 | droop | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 begin | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 creeps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | present | Oie | then | behind children = child | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | blow | present | Oie not said here | upon children's necks; softly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | children's heads | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | droop | to-infinitive | children's heads not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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