Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 18
I saw him, last winter, make your predecessor run, and his predecessor before him.
Who acts: I, predecessor · What happens: see, make, run · To what, where: dog
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, predecessor), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 winter | punct |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 winter | amod |
| 6 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 make | punct |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 predecessor | nmod:poss |
| 10 | predecessor | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 run | nsubj |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 make | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 predecessor | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 predecessor | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 predecessor | nmod:poss |
| 15 | predecessor | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | conj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 predecessor | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | dog | winter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | present | your predecessor | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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