Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 82
The pastor's hand trembled; he dared not stretch it out, he did not venture to pull a hair out of the sinner's head.
Who acts: hand, pastor · What happens: tremble, stretch out, not venture, pull · To what, where: heart, hair, head
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 (hand, pastor), 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 | 2 pastor | det |
| 2 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pastor | case |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trembled | nsubj |
| 5 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 stretch | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stretch | nsubj |
| 8 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stretch | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dared | advmod |
| 10 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trembled | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stretch | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stretch | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 venture | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 venture | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 venture | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 venture | advmod |
| 17 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 stretch | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pull | mark |
| 19 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 venture | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hair | det |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pull | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sinner | det |
| 25 | sinner | sinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 sinner | case |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pull | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | the pastor's hand | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stretch out | past | pastor | heart | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not venture | past · do-support | pastor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pull | to-infinitive | pastor not said here | a hair | the sinner's head | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme out head=Initial_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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