Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 22

Each time it came back, as it touched the earth, it gave a higher leap than before, either because it longed to fly upwards, or from having a Spanish cork in its body.

Who acts: more · What happens: come back, touch, give, long, fly, have · To what, where: earth, higher leap, Spanish cork, body

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 touched	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 touched	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 touched	nsubj
9	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 touched	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 leap	det
16	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 leap	amod
17	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obj
18	than	than	ADP	_	19 before	case
19	before	before	ADV	_	14 gave	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 longed	punct
21	either	either	CCONJ	_	24 longed	cc:preconj
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 longed	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 longed	nsubj
24	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gave	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 fly	mark
26	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 longed	xcomp
27	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	26 fly	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 having	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 having	cc
30	from	from	SCONJ	_	31 having	mark
31	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 longed	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cork	det
33	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 cork	amod
34	cork	cork	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 having	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 body	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 body	nmod:poss
37	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cork	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	more			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	touch	past	more	the earth				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme
3	give	past	more	a higher leap				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme
4	long	past	more					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	more not said here				upwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	have	gerund	more not said here	a Spanish cork	more's body			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cork=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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