Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 25
She immediately ordered that Soren's father should be taken down, and when they did not obey her, she stamped on the floor, and pulled at her father's sleeve till it was torn to pieces.
Who acts: chain, grimaces · What happens: order, take down, not obey, stamp, pull, tear · To what, where: father, chain, floor, sleeve
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chain, grimaces), 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 | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 taken | mark |
| 5 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Soren | case |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | ccomp |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 taken | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obey | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 obey | cc |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 obey | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obey | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obey | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 obey | advmod |
| 18 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 obey | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stamped | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stamped | nsubj |
| 22 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obey | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 floor | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 floor | det |
| 25 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stamped | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pulled | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pulled | cc |
| 28 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 sleeve | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sleeve | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 father | case |
| 33 | sleeve | sleeve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pulled | obl |
| 34 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 torn | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 torn | aux:pass |
| 37 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 pulled | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 pieces | case |
| 39 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 torn | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | chain | immediately property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take down | should · passive | Soren's father | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not obey | past · do-support | grimaces = grimace | chain | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stamp | past | chain | the floor | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination | ||||
| 5 | pull | past | chain not said here | at chain's father's sleeve | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at sleeve=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tear | past · passive | sleeve | to pieces result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |
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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