Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 25
Those at the top were being pulled down, and those at the bottom were struggling upwards.
Who acts: those · What happens: pull down, struggle · To what, where: Those
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 (those), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Those | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pulled | aux:pass |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pulled | aux:pass |
| 7 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 pulled | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 struggling | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 struggling | cc |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 struggling | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 bottom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bottom | det |
| 14 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 those | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 struggling | aux |
| 16 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pulled | advcl |
| 17 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 16 struggling | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull down | past · passive | Those | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | struggle | past · progressive | those | upwards property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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