Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess and the Pea, sentence 10
The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels.
Who acts: water, sight · What happens: run down · To what, where: hair, toes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Princess and the Pea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, sight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hair | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clothes | cc |
| 9 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 hair | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 toes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 toes | det |
| 16 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ran | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 shoes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 toes | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 heels | cc |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 again | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 heels | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 heels | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 heels | det |
| 25 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shoes | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run down | past | the water | water's hair and clothes | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hair=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run down | past | sight | into the toes of water's shoes and the heels result; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into toe=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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