Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 36
Then Ole-Luk-Oie lifted little Hjalmar up to the frame, and placed his feet in the picture, just on the high grass, and there he stood with the sun shining down upon him through the branches of the trees.
Who acts: Ole · What happens: lift up, place, stand, shine down · To what, where: little Hjalmar, frame, feet, picture, branches
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | Ole | Ole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Luk | punct |
| 4 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | conj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Oie | punct |
| 6 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ole | conj |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Hjalmar | amod |
| 9 | Hjalmar | Hjalmar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 lifted | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 frame | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frame | det |
| 13 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 feet | nmod:poss |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 placed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 picture | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 picture | det |
| 21 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grass | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 grass | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 grass | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 grass | det |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grass | amod |
| 27 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stood | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stood | cc |
| 30 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 stood | expl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stood | nsubj |
| 32 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sun | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sun | det |
| 35 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stood | obl |
| 36 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 stood | xcomp |
| 37 | down | down | ADV | _ | 36 shining | advmod |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 shining | obl |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 branches | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 branches | det |
| 42 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 shining | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 trees | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 trees | det |
| 45 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 branches | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Ole and Luk and Oie | little Hjalmar | the frame | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hjalmar=Theme to frame=Destination | ||
| 2 | place | past | Ole and Luk and Oie not said here | Oie's feet | the picture | on the high grass | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on grass=Destination | ||
| 3 | stand | past | Ole | there | with the sun | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | shine down | gerund | Ole not said here | the branches of the trees | upon Oie; down property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=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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