Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 47
How he did gnash his teeth and cry out to the bits of wood and straw, "Stop him, stop him; he has not paid toll, and has not shown his pass."
Who acts: musket · What happens: gnash, cry out, stop, not pay, not show, pass · To what, where: teeth, bits, musket, pass · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (musket), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gnash | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gnash | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gnash | aux |
| 4 | gnash | gnash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gnash | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cry | cc |
| 8 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gnash | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 cry | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bits | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bits | det |
| 12 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cry | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bits | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 straw | cc |
| 16 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wood | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Stop | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Stop | punct |
| 19 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cry | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Stop | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stop | punct |
| 22 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Stop | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stop | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 paid | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 paid | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 paid | advmod |
| 28 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 gnash | parataxis |
| 29 | toll | toll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 paid | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 shown | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 shown | cc |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 shown | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 shown | advmod |
| 34 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 paid | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 pass | nmod:poss |
| 36 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shown | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gnash | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gnash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnash | past · do-support | musket | musket's teeth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | infinitive | musket not said here | the bits of wood and straw | out property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bit=Recipient | |||
| 3 | stop in a quote | infinitive | musket not said here | musket | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | infinitive | musket not said here | musket | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not pay in a quote | present · perfect · passive | musket | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient toll=Asset | |||||
| 6 | not show in a quote | present · perfect | musket's pass | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pass=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | pass in a quote | musket | nom pass «act transitive»: poss=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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