Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 40

The old Ass of the milk-cart stood at the edge of the field-road, and glanced across at the blooming thistle bush; but his halter was too short, and he could not reach it.

Who acts: old Ass, halter, Ass · What happens: stand, glance, bloom, be, not reach · To what, where: edge, halter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Ass, halter, Ass), 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	3 Ass	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Ass	amod
3	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 cart	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cart	det
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cart	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 milk	punct
8	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Ass	nmod
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 edge	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 edge	det
12	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
15	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 road	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 field	punct
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 edge	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glanced	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 glanced	cc
20	glanced	glance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
21	across	across	ADV	_	20 glanced	advmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	26 bush	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bush	det
24	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 bush	amod
25	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bush	compound
26	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 glanced	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 short	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 short	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 halter	nmod:poss
30	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 short	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 short	cop
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 short	advmod
33	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stood	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 reach	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 reach	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 reach	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 reach	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 reach	advmod
39	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 short	parataxis
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 reach	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the old Ass of the milk cart		the edge of the field road		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location
2	glance	past	the old Ass of the milk cart not said here			at the blooming thistle bush; across property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bush=Theme
3	bloom	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	Ass's halter			short property	tree rules
5	not reach	could	Ass	halter			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=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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