Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 116

As soon as this was done the doll's back became quite right again; her head and shoulders were fixed on, and she could even move her limbs herself: there was now no occasion to pull the wires, for the doll acted just like a living creature, excepting that she could not speak.

Who acts: back, doll, occasion · What happens: do, become, fix on, move, pull, be · To what, where: this, head, limbs, wires · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (back, doll, occasion), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 became	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 done	mark
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 done	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 soon	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 doll	det
8	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 doll	case
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 became	nsubj
11	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	quite	quite	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 became	xcomp
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 right	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 fixed	punct
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fixed	nsubj:pass
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 shoulders	cc
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 head	conj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 fixed	aux:pass
21	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 became	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	21 fixed	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 move	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 move	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 move	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 move	aux
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 move	advmod
28	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 became	conj
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 limbs	nmod:poss
30	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 move	obj
31	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 move	obl
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 acted	cop
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 occasion	advmod
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 occasion	det
37	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 pull	mark
39	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 occasion	acl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 wires	det
41	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 pull	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 acted	punct
43	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 acted	mark
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 doll	det
45	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 acted	nsubj
46	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 became	conj
47	just	just	ADV	_	51 creature	advmod
48	like	like	ADP	_	51 creature	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 creature	det
50	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 creature	amod
51	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 acted	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 excepting	punct
53	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	46 acted	advcl
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 speak	mark
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 speak	nsubj
56	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 speak	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 speak	advmod
58	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 excepting	ccomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	become	past	the doll's back		right, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	fix on	past · passive		back's head and shoulders		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient
4	move	could	back	back's limbs	back obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent limb=Theme
5	pull	to-infinitive	the doll not said here	the wires		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Theme
6	is	past	the doll		like a living creature; act property	tree rules
7	except	gerund	the doll not said here			tree rules
8	not speak speech: other	could	occasion			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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