Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 28
She then drew forth the iron fastening, and I sprang out on the window-sill, and from thence to the roof.
Who acts: guest, I · What happens: draw, spring out · To what, where: iron fastening, window sill
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 (guest, I), 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 | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fastening | det |
| 6 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fastening | compound |
| 7 | fastening | fastening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprang | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sprang | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sprang | nsubj |
| 11 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sprang | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sill | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sill | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sill | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 window | punct |
| 17 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roof | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 roof | cc |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 thence | case |
| 21 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 24 roof | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 roof | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roof | det |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sprang | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | guest | the iron fastening | then | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fastening=Theme | ||
| 2 | spring out | past | I | the window sill | to the roof | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to roof=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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