Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 31
And they hacked away at him, and they pulled at him, and ate him up, because of the little bruise.
Who acts: legs · What happens: hack away, pull, eat up · To what, where: magician
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 (legs), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hacked | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hacked | nsubj |
| 3 | hacked | hack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 hacked | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hacked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pulled | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulled | nsubj |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hacked | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pulled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ate | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ate | cc |
| 15 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hacked | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ate | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 ate | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bruise | punct |
| 19 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 bruise | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 because | fixed |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bruise | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bruise | amod |
| 23 | bruise | bruise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ate | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hack away | past | legs = leg | at magician; away property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pull | past | legs = leg | at magician | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat up | past | legs = leg not said here | magician | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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