Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 129
I drew myself up to my full height upon the walls, which tickled my back very pleasantly.
Who acts: I, walls · What happens: draw up, tickle · To what, where: myself, full height, back
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, walls), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 drew | iobj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 drew | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 height | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 height | nmod:poss |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 height | amod |
| 8 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 walls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 walls | det |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 height | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tickled | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 tickled | nsubj |
| 14 | tickled | tickle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 walls | acl:relcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tickled | obj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 pleasantly | advmod |
| 18 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 14 tickled | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | I | myself | my full height upon the walls | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to height=Destination | |||
| 2 | tickle | past | the walls | my back | pleasantly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Experiencer |
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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