Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 81
He pulled up his shoes, for they were down at the heels, and he was very quick about it.
Who acts: remainder, shoes · What happens: pull up, be · To what, where: shoes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remainder, shoes), 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 pulled | nsubj |
| 2 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 pulled | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pulled | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heels | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 heels | case |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heels | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 heels | cop |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 heels | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 heels | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 heels | det |
| 13 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pulled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 quick | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 quick | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 quick | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 quick | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 quick | advmod |
| 19 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pulled | parataxis |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 quick | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | past | remainder | remainder's shoes | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | shoes = shoe | for the heels; down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | remainder | about mischief; quick property | 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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