Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 60
She now only held the naked skewer, and lifted it up as a conductor lifts his baton at a concert. "
Who acts: effect, conductor · What happens: hold, lift up, lift · To what, where: naked skewer, skewer, baton, concert
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (effect, conductor), 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 | 4 held | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 held | advmod |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 held | advmod |
| 4 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 skewer | det |
| 6 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 skewer | amod |
| 7 | skewer | skewer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 held | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lifted | cc |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 held | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lifted | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifted | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 lifts | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 conductor | det |
| 15 | conductor | conductor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifts | nsubj |
| 16 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lifted | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 baton | nmod:poss |
| 18 | baton | baton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifts | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 concert | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 concert | det |
| 21 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifts | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | effect | the naked skewer | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skewer=Theme | |||
| 2 | lift up | past | effect not said here | skewer | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift | present | a conductor | conductor's baton | a concert | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent baton=Theme at concert=Destination |
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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