Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 12
The little lady was a dancer, and she stretched out both her arms, and raised one of her legs so high, that the tin soldier could not see it at all, and he thought that she, like himself, had only one leg. "
Who acts: little lady, lady, tin soldier, lid · What happens: be, stretch out, raise, not see, think, have · To what, where: dancer, one, leg, all, one leg
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little lady, lady, tin soldier, lid), 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 lady | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dancer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dancer | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dancer | det |
| 6 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretched | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stretched | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stretched | nsubj |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dancer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stretched | compound:prt |
| 12 | both | both | ADP | _ | 14 arms | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stretched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 raised | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 raised | cc |
| 17 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stretched | conj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 raised | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 legs | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 legs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 high | advmod |
| 23 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 raised | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 soldier | det |
| 27 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 soldier | compound |
| 28 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 see | advmod |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 raised | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 all | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 see | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 thought | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thought | cc |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 thought | nsubj |
| 38 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stretched | conj |
| 39 | that | that | ADP | _ | 40 she | case |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 thought | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 himself | punct |
| 42 | like | like | ADP | _ | 43 himself | case |
| 43 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 thought | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 had | punct |
| 45 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stretched | conj |
| 46 | only | only | ADV | _ | 47 one | advmod |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 leg | nummod |
| 48 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 had | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancer | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 dancer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the little lady | a dancer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stretch out | past | lady | a dancer not said here | both lady's arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dancer=Patient | |||
| 3 | raise | past | lady not said here | one of lady's legs | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | the tin soldier | leg | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | lid | that lady; like lid | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | past | lady not said here | one leg | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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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