Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 20
But she went to a shelf and took down and unrolled a large skin, on which were inscribed wonderful characters, and she read till the perspiration ran down from her forehead.
Who acts: Power, perspiration · What happens: go, take down, unroll, inscribe, read, run down · To what, where: shelf, large skin, wonderful characters, forehead
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Power, perspiration), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 shelf | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shelf | det |
| 6 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 unrolled | cc |
| 11 | unrolled | unroll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 skin | amod |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unrolled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inscribed | punct |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 inscribed | obl |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 19 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 unrolled | conj |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 characters | amod |
| 21 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 inscribed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 read | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 read | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 read | nsubj |
| 25 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 ran | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 perspiration | det |
| 28 | perspiration | perspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | nsubj |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 read | advcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADV | _ | 29 ran | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 forehead | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 33 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Power | a shelf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shelf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take down | past | Power not said here | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | unroll | past | Power not said here | a large skin | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | inscribe | past · passive | Power not said here | wonderful characters | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: character=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 5 | read | past | Power | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | run down | past | the perspiration | Power's forehead | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from forehead=Trajectory |
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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