Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 22

She stood on tiptoe, with her legs stretched out, as firmly as he did on his one leg.

Who acts: noise, canary · What happens: stand, stretch out, do · To what, where: tiptoe, legs, 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 (noise, canary), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tiptoe	case
4	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stood	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stretched	punct
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	9 stretched	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stretched	nsubj:pass
9	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stood	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 stretched	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 firmly	punct
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 firmly	advmod
13	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	9 stretched	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 did	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 did	nsubj
16	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 firmly	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 leg	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 leg	nmod:poss
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 leg	nummod
20	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 did	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	noise		tiptoe		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location
2	stretch out	participle · passive		noise's legs		firmly property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	do	past	canary		canary's one leg		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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