Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 93
And then he held out his hand to him, in which lay a lovely little creature. "
Who acts: Ole · What happens: hold out, lie · To what, where: hand, Oie, lovely little creature
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 held | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 held | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 held | nsubj |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 held | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 held | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lay | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 creature | det |
| 15 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creature | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 creature | amod |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lay | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | Ole | Ole's hand | Oie | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||
| 2 | lie | past | a lovely little creature | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location creature=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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