Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 150

The woman screamed, and struck at him with the tongs; the children laughed and screamed, and tumbled over each other, in their efforts to catch him; but luckily he escaped.

Who acts: woman, children, warmth · What happens: scream, strike, laugh, tumble, catch, escape · To what, where: each, warmth

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, children, warmth), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 screamed	nsubj
3	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 struck	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 struck	cc
6	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 screamed	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 struck	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tongs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tongs	det
11	tongs	tong	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 struck	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 children	det
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laughed	nsubj
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 screamed	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 screamed	cc
17	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 laughed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tumbled	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tumbled	cc
20	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 laughed	conj
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 each	case
22	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	20 tumbled	obl
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 each	fixed
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 efforts	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 efforts	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 efforts	nmod:poss
27	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 tumbled	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 catch	mark
29	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tumbled	advcl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 catch	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 escaped	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 escaped	cc
33	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	35 escaped	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 escaped	nsubj
35	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 screamed	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 screamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	past	the woman				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	strike	past	the woman not said here			at warmth; with the tongs	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient with tong=Instrument
3	laugh	past	the children				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	scream speech: express	past	the children not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tumble	participle	the children not said here		each	in tongs's efforts	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in effort=Attribute
6	catch	to-infinitive	the children not said here	warmth			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	escape	past	warmth			luckily property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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