Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 33
The two were rather frightened at this, so they jumped into the drawer of the window-seat.
Who acts: stags · What happens: frighten, jump · To what, where: two, this, drawer
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 (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 | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 frightened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 jumped | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 drawer | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 drawer | det |
| 14 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jumped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 seat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 seat | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seat | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 window | punct |
| 19 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drawer | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the two | this | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | stags = stag | the drawer of the window seat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into drawer=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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