Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 41
The cooper's tub stuck itself up under the head of "ladies' costumes."
Who acts: tub · What happens: stick up · To what, where: tub, head
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 (tub), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cooper | det |
| 2 | cooper | cooper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tub | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 cooper | case |
| 4 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 stuck | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 stuck | compound:prt |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 costumes | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 costumes | punct |
| 13 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 costumes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 ladies | case |
| 15 | costumes | costume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 head | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick up | past | the cooper's tub | tub | the head of ladies's costumes | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme under head=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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