Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 20
And the snail spat at them with contempt.
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spat | det |
| 3 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spat | compound |
| 4 | spat | spat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spat | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 contempt | case |
| 8 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spat | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spat | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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