Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 84
The polypi, eel-like living creatures, had fastened themselves to the bottom, and stretched out arms, fathoms long, for prey.
What happens: live, fasten, stretch out · To what, where: polypi, long
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 polypi | det |
| 2 | polypi | polypi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eel | punct |
| 4 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 polypi | appos |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 like | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 creatures | case |
| 7 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 creatures | amod |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 polypi | punct |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fastened | aux |
| 11 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 fastened | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fastened | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stretched | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stretched | cc |
| 18 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fastened | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 stretched | compound:prt |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 long | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fathoms | punct |
| 22 | fathoms | fathom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arms | conj |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stretched | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 prey | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 prey | case |
| 26 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stretched | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fasten | past · perfect · passive | the polypi | to the bottom | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient themselves=Result | ||||
| 3 | stretch out | participle | long | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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