Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 40
Not long ago, I crushed the hind legs of a young hare.
Who acts: I · What happens: crush · To what, where: hind legs
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: who acts (I), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 crushed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ago | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 crushed | nsubj |
| 6 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 legs | det |
| 8 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 legs | amod |
| 9 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crushed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hare | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hare | amod |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 legs | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crush | past | I | the hind legs of a young hare | ago property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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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