Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 61
He plucked the shamrocks and put them in his pocket.
Who acts: wind · What happens: pluck, put · To what, where: shamrocks, pocket
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 plucked | nsubj |
| 2 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shamrocks | det |
| 4 | shamrocks | shamrock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 plucked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 plucked | conj |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl | ||
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | past | wind | the shamrocks | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shamrock=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | wind not said here | shamrocks = shamrock | wind's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pocket=Destination |
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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