Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 12
"Everything in the right place," he said, imitating the noble baron, and pulling the little maid up to the dry ground.
Who acts: child · What happens: say, imitate, pull, mai up · To what, where: noble baron, little · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Everything | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Everything | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Everything | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Everything | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 imitating | punct |
| 12 | imitating | imitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 baron | det |
| 14 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 baron | amod |
| 15 | baron | baron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 imitating | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pulling | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pulling | cc |
| 18 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 imitating | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 little | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pulling | obj |
| 21 | maid | mai | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pulling | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 maid | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 25 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ground | amod |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 maid | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | imitate | gerund | child not said here | the noble baron | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baron=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | child not said here | the little | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mai up | participle | child not said here | to the dry ground | tree rules |
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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