Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 63
The latter crept into their houses and spat at the world, for it did not concern them.
Who acts: latter, souvenir · What happens: creep, do · To what, where: houses, concern
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: who acts (latter, souvenir), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 houses | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 houses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crept | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spat | cc |
| 8 | spat | spat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 houses | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | conj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 concern | advmod |
| 17 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | obj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 concern | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the latter | latter's houses and spat | at the world | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 2 | do | past | souvenir | concern | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concern=Eventuality |
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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