Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 22

He took me in his hand certainly, but it was to place me in a cage like a tread-mill.

Who acts: jailer, hand · What happens: take, be · To what, where: me, hand, place, cage

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, 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 (jailer, hand), 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	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	iobj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hand	nmod:poss
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 place	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 place	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 place	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 place	mark
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 place	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cage	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cage	det
17	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	nmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	22 mill	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 mill	det
20	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mill	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tread	punct
22	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cage	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	jailer		me	jailer's hand		certainly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in hand=Location
2	is a	past	hand	place		a cage like a tread mill			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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