Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 55
And it thrust its beak into the piece of grass, to refresh itself a little.
Who acts: beauty · What happens: thrust, refresh · To what, where: beak, piece, beauty
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 thrust | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thrust | nsubj |
| 3 | thrust | thrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 beak | nmod:poss |
| 5 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrust | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 piece | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thrust | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 grass | case |
| 10 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 refresh | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 refresh | mark |
| 13 | refresh | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thrust | conj |
| 14 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 refresh | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 little | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 refresh | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thrust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thrust | past | beauty | beauty's beak | the piece of grass | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Theme | |||
| 2 | refresh | to-infinitive | beauty not said here | beauty | a little obl:unmarked | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus itself=Experiencer |
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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