Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 71

She shot in like an arrow, and overturned the sausage peg that had been covered with crape.

Who acts: rest · What happens: shoot in, overturn, cover · To what, where: sausage peg

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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 shot	nsubj
2	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	2 shot	compound:prt
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 arrow	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 arrow	det
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shot	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 overturned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 overturned	cc
9	overturned	overturn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shot	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 peg	det
11	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 peg	compound
12	peg	peg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overturned	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 covered	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 covered	aux:pass
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 peg	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 crape	case
18	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 covered	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shoot in	past	rest		like a arrow	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	overturn	past	rest not said here	the sausage peg		tree rules
3	cover	past · perfect · passive		the sausage peg	with crape	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with crape=Theme

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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