Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 52
With this the snail withdrew into his house and blocked up the entrance.
What happens: withdraw, block up · To what, where: house, entrance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 snail | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 snail | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snail | det |
| 4 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 withdrew | obl |
| 5 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 withdrew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blocked | cc |
| 10 | blocked | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 withdrew | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 blocked | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 entrance | det |
| 13 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blocked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | Snail's house | with this snail | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | block up | past | the entrance | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=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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