Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 24

But it was still more terrible to see how one beat and pushed the other, and bit and hacked, and tugged and mauled him.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, see, beat, push, bite, hack · To what, where: other, magician · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:1478): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 terrible	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 terrible	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 terrible	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 terrible	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 terrible	advmod
6	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 terrible	csubj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 beat	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 beat	nsubj
11	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 see	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pushed	cc
13	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beat	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pushed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bit	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bit	cc
18	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beat	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hacked	cc
20	hacked	hack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beat	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tugged	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tugged	cc
23	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beat	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mauled	cc
25	mauled	maul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 beat	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mauled	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 terrible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			still	terrible property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	beat	past	one				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	push	past	one not said here	the other			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
5	bite	past	one not said here				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	hack	past	one not said here				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
7	tug	past	one not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
8	maul	past	one not said here	magician			tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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