Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 62
Like a ferocious animal, one of them rose out of his sleep and uttered a horrible cry, and gave his comrade a violent dig in the ribs with his pointed elbow, and this one turned round in his sleep:
Who acts: one, animal · What happens: rise, utter, give, turn round, sleep · To what, where: sleep, horrible cry, comrade, ribs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, animal), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 animal | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 3 | ferocious | ferocious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animal | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 one | nmod |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sleep | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uttered | cc |
| 15 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cry | det |
| 17 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cry | amod |
| 18 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uttered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 23 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dig | det |
| 25 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dig | amod |
| 26 | dig | dig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 ribs | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ribs | det |
| 29 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gave | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 elbow | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 32 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 elbow | amod |
| 33 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 turned | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 turned | cc |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 one | det |
| 37 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 turned | nsubj |
| 38 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rose | conj |
| 39 | round | round | ADV | _ | 38 turned | advmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sleep | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 42 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 turned | obl |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | one of dreams | animal's sleep | like a ferocious animal | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sleep=Location | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | one of dreams not said here | a horrible cry | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | past | one of dreams not said here | animal's comrade | the ribs | with animal's pointed elbow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Recipient dig=Theme | ||
| 4 | turn round | participle | this one | animal's sleep | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | sleep | animal | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | sleep | animal | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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