Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 109
Great black grasshoppers played the mouth organ, and the owl struck herself on the body instead of a drum.
Who acts: Great black grasshoppers, owl · What happens: play, strike · To what, where: mouth organ, owl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great black grasshoppers, owl), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grasshoppers | amod |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grasshoppers | amod |
| 3 | grasshoppers | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 played | nsubj |
| 4 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 organ | det |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 organ | compound |
| 7 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 played | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 struck | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 owl | det |
| 11 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | nsubj |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 played | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 struck | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 body | det |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 20 drum | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drum | det |
| 20 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Great black grasshoppers | the mouth organ | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the owl | owl | instead a drum; on the body | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent herself=Instrument on body=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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