Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 31
The carved stags pushed out their heads, raised their antlers, and twisted their necks.
Who acts: carved stags · What happens: carve, push out, raise, twist · To what, where: heads, antlers, necks
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 (carved stags), 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 | 3 stags | det |
| 2 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stags | amod |
| 3 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 raised | nsubj |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stags | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pushed | compound:prt |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pushed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stags | punct |
| 9 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 antlers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 raised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 twisted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 twisted | cc |
| 14 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 raised | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 necks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 twisted | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | push out | participle | the carved stags not said here | stags's heads | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | the carved stags | stags's antlers | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Theme | ||||
| 4 | twist | past | the carved stags not said here | stags's necks | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=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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