Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 87
She thought of jumping down, and had got one leg over the partition, the other resting on the bench.
Who acts: aunt · What happens: think, jump down, get · To what, where: one leg, partition · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 jumping | mark |
| 4 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 jumping | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 leg | nummod |
| 11 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 partition | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 partition | det |
| 14 | partition | partition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 resting | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 resting | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 resting | amod |
| 18 | resting | resting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 partition | appos |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 bench | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bench | det |
| 21 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resting | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | aunt | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump down | gerund | aunt not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · perfect | one leg | the partition | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Stimulus |
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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