Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 98
Every one ran out to look at them, and a shoemaker's boy, with a leather apron and slippers on, galloped by so fast, that one of his slippers flew off and struck against the wall where the soldier sat looking through the iron grating. "
Who acts: one, soldier · What happens: run out, look, gallop, fly off, strike, sit · To what, where: wall
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 (one, soldier), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ran | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 boy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 boy | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shoemaker | det |
| 12 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boy | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 shoemaker | case |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 apron | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 apron | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 apron | det |
| 18 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 apron | compound |
| 19 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slippers | cc |
| 21 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 apron | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 slippers | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 galloped | punct |
| 24 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 apron | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 fast | case |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 fast | advmod |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 galloped | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 flew | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 flew | mark |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 flew | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 slippers | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 slippers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | slippers | slipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 flew | compound:prt |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 struck | cc |
| 37 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 flew | conj |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 40 wall | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wall | det |
| 40 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 struck | obl |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 sat | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 soldier | det |
| 43 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sat | nsubj |
| 44 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 wall | acl:relcl |
| 45 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 sat | advcl |
| 46 | through | through | ADP | _ | 49 grating | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 grating | det |
| 48 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 grating | compound |
| 49 | grating | grating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 looking | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | every one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | every one not said here | at people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gallop | participle | every one not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fast=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | fly off | past | one of soldier's slippers | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | strike | participle | one of soldier's slippers not said here | the wall | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against wall=Location | ||||
| 6 | sit | past | the soldier | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | look | gerund | the soldier not said here | through the iron grating | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through grating=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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