Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 63
She picked up the soldier and held him by the waist between her finger and thumb, and carried him into the room.
Who acts: voice · What happens: pick up, hold, carry · To what, where: soldier, fish, room
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 (voice), 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 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 picked | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 held | cc |
| 7 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 held | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 waist | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waist | det |
| 11 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 held | obl |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 finger | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 finger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waist | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thumb | cc |
| 16 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finger | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 room | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 room | det |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carried | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | voice | the soldier | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | voice not said here | fish | by the waist between voice's finger and thumb | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme by waist=Location | |||
| 3 | carry | past | voice not said here | fish | the room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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