Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 49
He worked his way onward with his feet and one arm, while he held the young girl up firmly with the other.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: work, hold up · To what, where: way, young girl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 worked | obj |
| 5 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 2 worked | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 worked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arm | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 arm | nummod |
| 11 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feet | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 held | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 held | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | nsubj |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 worked | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 girl | amod |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 held | compound:prt |
| 20 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 15 held | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 other | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 other | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 held | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | Jurgen | Jurgen's way | with Jurgen's feet and one arm; onward property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | |||
| 2 | hold up | past | Jurgen | the young girl | with the other; firmly property | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent girl=Theme with other=Instrument |
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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