Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 91

He is almost as light as the bubble, and he raises himself on his hind legs, and wants to be taken into the swing; but it does not stop, and the dog falls; then he barks and gets angry.

Who acts: dog, swing · What happens: be, raise, want, take, not stop, fall · To what, where: dog, hind legs, swing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, swing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 light	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 light	advmod
5	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 bubble	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bubble	det
8	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 raises	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 raises	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 raises	nsubj
12	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	parataxis
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 raises	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 legs	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 legs	nmod:poss
16	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 legs	amod
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 raises	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wants	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wants	cc
20	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 raises	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 taken	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 taken	aux:pass
23	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 wants	xcomp
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 swing	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 swing	det
26	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 taken	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 stop	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 stop	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stop	nsubj
30	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 stop	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 stop	advmod
32	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 light	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 falls	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 falls	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dog	det
36	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 falls	nsubj
37	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 stop	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 barks	punct
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 barks	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 barks	nsubj
41	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 stop	advcl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 gets	cc
43	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 barks	conj
44	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 gets	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dog				as the bubble; almost, light property	tree rules
2	raise	present	dog	dog	dog's hind legs			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on leg=Destination
3	want	present	dog not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	take not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	dog not said here		the swing			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into swing=Destination
5	not stop	present · do-support	swing					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	fall	present	the dog					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bark	present	dog			then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	get	present	dog not said here				angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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