Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 47
She blew upon us, and all the young ones died excepting us two.
Who acts: Queen, young ones · What happens: blow, die, except · To what, where: us
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 (Queen, young ones), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | nsubj |
| 2 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 blew | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 died | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 ones | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ones | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 blew | conj |
| 12 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 died | advcl |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 excepting | obj |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 excepting | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Queen | upon us | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | past | all young ones | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | except | gerund | all young ones not said here | us | tree rules |
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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