Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 32
They seemed to shoot out of his pencil and out of his fingers' ends.
Who acts: drawings · What happens: seem, shoot · To what, where: pencil
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 (drawings), 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 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 shoot | mark |
| 4 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 pencil | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pencil | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 pencil | nmod:poss |
| 8 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoot | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ends | cc |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 ends | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ends | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 fingers | case |
| 15 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pencil | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | drawings = drawing | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | shoot | to-infinitive | drawings = drawing not said here | penny's pencil and penny's fingers's ends | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent out pencil=Initial_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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