Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Drop of Water, sentence 6
They tear off each other's legs and arms and bodies, before and behind; and yet they are merry and joyful in their way.
Who acts: spiders · What happens: tear off, be · To what, where: legs, way
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 (spiders), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tear | nsubj |
| 2 | tear | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 tear | compound:prt |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 other | det |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 other | case |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tear | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 arms | cc |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 legs | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bodies | cc |
| 11 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 legs | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 before | punct |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 tear | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 behind | cc |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 13 before | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 merry | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 merry | cc |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 merry | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 merry | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 merry | cop |
| 21 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tear | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 joyful | cc |
| 23 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 merry | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 way | nmod:poss |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 joyful | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear off | present | spiders = spider | each other's legs and arms and bodies | before property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location leg=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | spiders = spider | yet | merry property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | spiders = spider not said here | spiders's way | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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