Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 23
There's a straw going by now; how he turns and twists about!
Who acts: straw, pin · What happens: be, go, turn, twist
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straw, pin), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 's | expl |
| 2 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 straw | det |
| 4 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 's | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 straw | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 now | case |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 going | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 turns | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 turns | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turns | nsubj |
| 11 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 's | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 twists | cc |
| 13 | twists | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 turns | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 twists | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 's | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a straw | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | a straw not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by now=Location | |||||
| 3 | turn | present | pin | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | twist | present | pin not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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