Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 90
She took her large gold scissors, cut a piece of silk into squares, and made a neat little bag.
Who acts: queen · What happens: take, cut, make · To what, where: large gold scissors, piece, squares, neat little bag
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 (queen), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 scissors | nmod:poss |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scissors | amod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scissors | compound |
| 6 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 silk | case |
| 12 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piece | nmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 squares | case |
| 14 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bag | det |
| 19 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bag | amod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bag | amod |
| 21 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | queen | queen's large gold scissors | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | a piece of silk | squares | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent piece=Material into square=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | past | queen not said here | a neat little bag | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bag=Product |
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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