Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 33

I tickle his neck every evening with my sharp knife, which frightens him very much."

Who acts: I, sharp knife · What happens: tickle, frighten · To what, where: neck, chimney

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 (I, sharp knife), 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	2 tickle	nsubj
2	tickle	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 neck	nmod:poss
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tickle	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tickle	obl:unmarked
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 knife	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 knife	nmod:poss
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knife	amod
10	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tickle	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 frightens	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 frightens	nsubj
13	frightens	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 knife	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 frightens	obj
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	13 frightens	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tickle	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tickle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	present	I	chimney's neck			evening	with my sharp knife	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer with knife=Instrument
2	frighten	present	my sharp knife	chimney					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=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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