Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 11

All the thousands of little creatures hopped and sprang and tugged at one another, and ate each other up.

Who acts: thousands · What happens: hop, spring, tug, eat up · To what, where: each

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Drop of Water. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousands), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 thousands	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thousands	det
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hopped	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 creatures	case
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creatures	amod
6	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
7	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sprang	cc
9	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hopped	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tugged	cc
11	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sprang	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 tugged	obl
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hopped	conj
18	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	17 ate	obj
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 each	fixed
20	up	up	ADP	_	17 ate	compound:prt
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hop	past	all thousands of little creatures			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spring	past	all thousands of little creatures not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tug	past	all thousands of little creatures not said here		at one	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at one=Theme
4	eat up	past	all thousands of little creatures not said here	each		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient

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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