Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 78
The other criminals seized him, wrestled with him, and bent him double, so that his head rested between his knees, and they tied him, so that the blood almost came out of his eyes and out of all his pores.
Who acts: other criminals, head, criminals, blood · What happens: seize, wrestle, bend, rest, tie, come out · To what, where: Matz, knees, eyes
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 (other criminals, head, criminals, blood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 criminals | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 criminals | amod |
| 3 | criminals | criminal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrestled | punct |
| 7 | wrestled | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wrestled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bent | cc |
| 12 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bent | obj |
| 14 | double | double | ADV | _ | 12 bent | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rested | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 rested | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rested | nsubj |
| 20 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bent | conj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 knees | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 knees | nmod:poss |
| 23 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rested | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tied | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tied | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tied | nsubj |
| 27 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tied | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 35 came | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 blood | det |
| 33 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | nsubj |
| 34 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 35 came | advmod |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tied | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 eyes | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 came | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 pores | cc |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 pores | case |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 pores | case |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 pores | det:predet |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 pores | nmod:poss |
| 45 | pores | pore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 eyes | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the other criminals | Matz | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wrestle | past | the other criminals not said here | with Matz | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | bend | past | the other criminals not said here | Matz | double property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent he=Material | |||
| 4 | rest | past | Matz's head | Matz's knees | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between knee=Location | ||||
| 5 | tie | past | criminals = criminal | Matz | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | come out | past | the blood | Matz's eyes and Matz's pores | almost property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result |
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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