Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 77
I had bitten the youngest of my master's sons in the leg, because he kicked away the bone I was gnawing. '
Who acts: I, dog · What happens: bite, kick away, gnaw · To what, where: youngest, bone
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, dog), 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 | 3 bitten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitten | aux |
| 3 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youngest | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 bitten | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sons | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 master | nmod:poss |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 master | case |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 youngest | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 leg | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 leg | det |
| 13 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sons | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kicked | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 kicked | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kicked | nsubj |
| 17 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bitten | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 kicked | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bone | det |
| 20 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kicked | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gnawing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gnawing | aux |
| 23 | gnawing | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 kicked | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bitten | punct |
| 25 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bitten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | past · perfect | I | the youngest of my master's sons in the leg | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | ||||
| 2 | kick away | past | dog | the bone | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | |||
| 3 | gnaw | past · progressive | I | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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