Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 9
The snail crept half out of his shell, stretched out his horns, and drew them in again.
Who acts: snail, shell · What happens: creep, stretch out, draw · To what, where: shell, horns
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 (snail, shell), 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 snail | det |
| 2 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | nsubj |
| 3 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 crept | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 shell | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 shell | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shell | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretched | punct |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 shell | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stretched | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horns | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stretched | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drew | cc |
| 16 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crept | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drew | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 again | case |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 drew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | past | the snail | Snail's shell | half property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shell=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stretch out | participle | Snail's shell not said here | Snail's horns | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | horns = horn | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in again=Destination |
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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