Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 202
Once I extended a finger to him, and he took my whole hand.
Who acts: I, monk · What happens: extend, take · To what, where: finger, monk, whole hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, monk), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 extended | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 extended | nsubj |
| 3 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 finger | det |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 extended | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 extended | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 extended | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 extended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | past | I | a finger | monk | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent finger=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | take | past | monk | my whole hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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