Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 109

And the dogs fell upon the judges and all the councillors; seized one by the legs, and another by the nose, and tossed them many feet high in the air, so that they fell down and were dashed to pieces.

Who acts: dogs, legs · What happens: fall, seize, toss, fall down, dash · To what, where: judges, one, legs, pieces

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs, legs), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 fell	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 judges	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 judges	det
7	judges	judge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 councillors	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 councillors	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 councillors	det
11	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 judges	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 seized	punct
13	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fell	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 seized	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 legs	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 legs	det
17	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 another	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 another	cc
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 fell	conj
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 nose	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nose	det
23	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tossed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tossed	cc
26	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tossed	obj
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 feet	amod
29	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 high	obl:unmarked
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tossed	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 air	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 high	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fell	punct
35	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 fell	mark
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 so	fixed
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 fell	nsubj
38	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tossed	parataxis
39	down	down	ADV	_	38 fell	advmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 dashed	cc
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dashed	aux:pass
42	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 fell	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 pieces	case
44	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 dashed	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the dogs		the judges and all councillors	by the nose	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon judge=Location
2	seize	participle	the dogs not said here	one		by the legs	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	toss	past	the dogs not said here	legs = leg			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	fall down	past	legs = leg			down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dash	past · passive	legs = leg not said here		pieces		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: to piece=Destination

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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