Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 111

It was a very pleasant play, not at all mournful; but just as the queen stood up and walked across the stage, the great bull-dog, who should have been held back by his master, made a spring forward, and caught the queen in the teeth by the slender wrist, so that it snapped in two.

Who acts: air, queen, master · What happens: be, not be, stand up, walk, hold back, make · To what, where: pleasant play, stage, great bull dog, queen, teeth, two

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, queen, master), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 play	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 play	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 play	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 pleasant	advmod
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 play	amod
6	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mournful	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 mournful	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 mournful	advmod
11	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 play	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stood	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 stood	cc
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 queen	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 queen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 queen	det
17	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stood	nsubj
18	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 play	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 stood	compound:prt
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 walked	cc
21	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	conj
22	across	across	ADP	_	24 stage	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stage	det
24	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dog	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dog	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dog	amod
28	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dog	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 bull	punct
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 stage	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 held	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 held	nsubj:pass
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 held	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 held	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 held	aux:pass
36	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 dog	acl:relcl
37	back	back	ADP	_	36 held	compound:prt
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 master	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 master	nmod:poss
40	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 held	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 made	punct
42	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stood	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 spring	det
44	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 made	obj
45	forward	forward	ADV	_	42 made	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 caught	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 caught	cc
48	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 made	parataxis
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 queen	det
50	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 caught	obj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 teeth	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 teeth	det
53	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 caught	obl
54	by	by	ADP	_	57 wrist	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 wrist	det
56	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 wrist	amod
57	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 caught	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 snapped	punct
59	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	62 snapped	mark
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 so	fixed
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 snapped	nsubj
62	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 caught	conj
63	in	in	ADP	_	64 two	case
64	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 snapped	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	air	a pleasant play				tree rules
2	not be		air not said here					tree rules
3	stand up	past	the queen					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	walk	past	the queen not said here		the stage			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across stage=Trajectory
5	hold back	should · perfect · passive	dog's master	the great bull dog				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
6	make	past	the queen not said here			spring	forward property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
7	catch	past		the queen	the teeth		by the slender wrist	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme
8	snap	past	air		two			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in two=Location

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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