Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 33

But now she had to come out, and they tugged at her, and pulled her about, and ate her up.

Who acts: sitting, peace · What happens: have, come out, tug, pull, eat up · To what, where: sitting

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 (sitting, peace), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ate	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	xcomp
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tugged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tugged	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tugged	nsubj
11	tugged	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tugged	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pulled	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pulled	cc
16	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tugged	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pulled	obj
18	about	about	ADV	_	16 pulled	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ate	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ate	cc
21	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ate	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 ate	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	sitting		now		tree rules
2	come out	to-infinitive	sitting not said here			out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	tug	past	peace			at sitting	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
4	pull	past	peace not said here	sitting		about property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent she=Result
5	eat up	past		sitting			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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