Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 64
He took hold of the letter very roughly, and threw the verses away, so that the Flower fell on the ground.
Who acts: man, Flower · What happens: take, throw away, fall, hold · To what, where: hold, verses, ground, letter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Flower), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 letter | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | nmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 roughly | advmod |
| 8 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 verses | det |
| 13 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 threw | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 threw | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 fell | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Flower | det |
| 19 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 threw | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | hold of the letter | roughly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw away | past | the verses | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the Flower | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | the letter | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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