Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 3
Then they struck the little jockeys, the coachman, and the footman dead, and pulled little Gerda out of the carriage.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: strike, pull · To what, where: little jockeys, Gerda, carriage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 jockeys | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 jockeys | amod |
| 6 | jockeys | jockey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 struck | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coachman | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coachman | det |
| 9 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jockeys | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dead | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dead | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 footman | det |
| 13 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dead | nsubj |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 struck | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pulled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pulled | cc |
| 17 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 18 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 Gerda | advmod |
| 19 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 pulled | obl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 carriage | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 carriage | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 carriage | det |
| 23 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pulled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | eyes = eye | the little jockeys and the coachman | then | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jockey=Patient | |||
| 2 | pull | past | eyes = eye not said here | Gerda | the carriage | vn slide-11.2 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme out carriage=Initial_Location |
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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