Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 76
They turned me out of doors, and chained me up here.
Who acts: people · What happens: turn, chain up · To what, where: me, doors
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 doors | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 doors | case |
| 6 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chained | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chained | cc |
| 9 | chained | chain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 chained | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 chained | compound:prt |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 chained | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | people | me | doors | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme out door=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | chain up | past | people not said here | me | here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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