Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 22
George sprang upon a chair he brought in haste, and pulled down the burning articles; he then alarmed the people.
Who acts: George · What happens: spring, bring, pull down, alarm · To what, where: chair, haste, burning articles, people
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | nsubj |
| 2 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 chair | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chair | det |
| 5 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sprang | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | nsubj |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chair | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 haste | case |
| 9 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | cc |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sprang | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 articles | det |
| 15 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 articles | compound |
| 16 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pulled | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 alarmed | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 alarmed | nsubj |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 alarmed | advmod |
| 20 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sprang | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 people | det |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 alarmed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | George | a chair | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon chair=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | George | a chair not said here | haste | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chair=Theme | |||
| 3 | pull down | participle | the burning articles | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent article=Theme | |||||
| 4 | alarm | past | George | the people | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
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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