Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 10

Little boys and girls fell over their own toes into the gutter, old women dispensed digs with their elbows, and looked sour, and took snuff.

Who acts: Little boys, old women · What happens: fall, dispense, dig, look, take · To what, where: own toes, snuff

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little boys, old women), 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boys	amod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 girls	cc
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boys	conj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 toes	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 toes	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toes	amod
9	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fell	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 gutter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gutter	det
12	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 toes	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dispensed	punct
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 women	amod
15	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dispensed	nsubj
16	dispensed	dispense	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
17	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 dispensed	ccomp
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 elbows	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 elbows	nmod:poss
20	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 digs	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 looked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
24	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looked	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
28	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Little boys and girls		girls's own toes into the gutter		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over toe=Location
2	dispense	past	old women				tree rules
3	dig	present	old women not said here			with women's elbows	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with elbow=Instrument
4	look	past	Little boys and girls not said here			sour property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	take	past	Little boys and girls not said here	snuff			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=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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