Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 149
They rush along by means of an invention they call 'railway;' but they often break their necks over it.
Who acts: men · What happens: rush, mean, call, break · To what, where: railway, necks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rush | nsubj |
| 2 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 rush | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 means | case |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rush | parataxis |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 invention | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 invention | det |
| 8 | invention | invention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 call | nsubj |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 invention | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 railway | punct |
| 12 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 call | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 rush | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 rush | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 break | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 break | nsubj |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 break | advmod |
| 18 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rush | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 necks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 break | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 break | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | present | men = man | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | of a invention | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | present | men = man | railway | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent railway=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | break | present | men = man | men's necks | railway | often property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |
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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