Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 19
The nut-crackers played at leap-frog, and the pencil jumped about the table.
Who acts: nut crackers, pencil · What happens: play, jump
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 (nut crackers, pencil), 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 | 4 crackers | det |
| 2 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crackers | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 nut | punct |
| 4 | crackers | cracker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | nsubj |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 frog | case |
| 7 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 frog | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 leap | punct |
| 9 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 jumped | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pencil | det |
| 13 | pencil | pencil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | nsubj |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 played | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 table | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 table | det |
| 17 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the nut crackers | at leap frog | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | the pencil | about the table | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about table=Trajectory |
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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