Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 29
He brought his little ladder to help her, and so they contrived to reach the floor.
Who acts: place, edge · What happens: bring, help, contrive, reach · To what, where: little ladder, sweep, floor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, edge), 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 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | 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 | 5 ladder | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ladder | amod |
| 5 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 brought | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 contrived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 contrived | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 contrived | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 contrived | nsubj |
| 13 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brought | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 reach | mark |
| 15 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 contrived | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reach | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | place | place's little ladder | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | place not said here | sweep | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | contrive | past | edge | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | edge not said here | the floor | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent floor=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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