Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 91
This bag she filled with buckwheat flour, and tied it round the princess's neck; and then she cut a small hole in the bag, so that the flour might be scattered on the ground as the princess went along.
Who acts: bag, queen, princess · What happens: fill, tie, cut, scatter, go along · To what, where: bag, small hole, flour, ground
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 (bag, queen, princess), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 bag | det |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 flour | case |
| 6 | buckwheat | buckwheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flour | compound |
| 7 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tied | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tied | cc |
| 10 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tied | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princess | det |
| 14 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 princess | case |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tied | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 cut | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cut | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 cut | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cut | nsubj |
| 21 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hole | det |
| 23 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hole | amod |
| 24 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cut | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 bag | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bag | det |
| 27 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hole | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 scattered | punct |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 scattered | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 flour | det |
| 32 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 scattered | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 scattered | aux:pass |
| 35 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 cut | conj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 ground | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ground | det |
| 38 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 scattered | obl |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 went | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 princess | det |
| 41 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 went | nsubj |
| 42 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 scattered | advcl |
| 43 | along | along | ADV | _ | 42 went | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | this bag | with buckwheat flour | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with flour=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | tie | past | this bag not said here | bag | round the princess's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | cut | past | queen | a small hole | the bag | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Product | ||
| 4 | scatter | might · passive | the flour | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination | ||||
| 5 | go along | past | the princess | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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