Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 26
They toil and tug away with their goods and chattels, and the household goblin sits in an old tub and moves with them.
Who acts: people, household goblin · What happens: toil, tug away, sit, move · To what, where: old tub
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, household goblin), 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 toil | nsubj |
| 2 | toil | toil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tug | cc |
| 4 | tug | tug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 toil | conj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 tug | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 goods | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 goods | nmod:poss |
| 8 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 tug | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chattels | cc |
| 10 | chattels | chattel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 goods | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sits | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sits | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goblin | det |
| 14 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 goblin | compound |
| 15 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sits | nsubj |
| 16 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 toil | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tub | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tub | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tub | amod |
| 20 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sits | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 moves | cc |
| 22 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sits | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 moves | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 toil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toil | present | people | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tug away | present | people not said here | with people's goods and chattels; away property | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with goods=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | the household goblin | a old tub | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tub=Location | ||||
| 4 | move | present | the household goblin not said here | with people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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