Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 58
First, she looked for a pair of scissors, and cut the string.
Who acts: string · What happens: look, cut · To what, where: string
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (string), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 looked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 pair | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 scissors | case |
| 9 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 string | det |
| 14 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cut | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | string | for a pair of scissors; first property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for pair=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | string not said here | the string | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset string=Product |
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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