Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 89
Marie Grubbe took her gun in her hand and went out to the heath, and shot hares and foxes, and whatever birds she could hit.
Who acts: Marie, birds · What happens: take, go out, shoot, hit · To what, where: gun, hand, hares, whatever
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 (Marie, birds), 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 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Grubbe | Grubbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marie | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gun | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 heath | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heath | det |
| 14 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shot | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shot | cc |
| 17 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 18 | hares | hare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shot | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 foxes | cc |
| 20 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hares | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hit | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hit | cc |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 hit | obj |
| 24 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hit | nsubj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 hit | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 hit | aux |
| 27 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 shot | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Marie | spirit's gun | spirit's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gun=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | go out | past | Marie not said here | to the heath; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | hares and foxes | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hit | could | birds | whatever | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whatever=Co-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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