Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 31
And here is my old sweetheart 'Ba;'" and she dragged out a reindeer by the horn; he wore a bright copper ring round his neck, and was tied up. "
Who acts: old sweetheart, Ba, chimney · What happens: be, drag out, wear, tie up · To what, where: reindeer, bright copper ring · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old sweetheart, Ba, chimney), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 here | cc |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sweetheart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sweetheart | amod |
| 6 | sweetheart | sweetheart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 here | nsubj |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sweetheart | punct |
| 8 | Ba | Ba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sweetheart | appos |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dragged | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dragged | nsubj |
| 14 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 dragged | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 reindeer | det |
| 17 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragged | obj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 horn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horn | det |
| 20 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dragged | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wore | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wore | nsubj |
| 23 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 here | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ring | det |
| 25 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ring | amod |
| 26 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ring | compound |
| 27 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wore | obj |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 30 neck | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 neck | nmod:poss |
| 30 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ring | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tied | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 tied | cc |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 tied | aux:pass |
| 34 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 wore | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 tied | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my old sweetheart | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drag out in a quote | past | Ba | a reindeer | by the horn | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme | |||
| 3 | wear in a quote | past | chimney | a bright copper ring | round chimney's neck | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | |||
| 4 | tie up in a quote | past · passive | chimney not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |
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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