Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 86
A crab clambered over him, looking like a gigantic spider, while the shrimps wandered about in restless haste, like the butterflies and moths of the sea.
Who acts: crab, shrimps · What happens: clamber, look, wander
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: who acts (crab, shrimps), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clambered | nsubj |
| 3 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 clambered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 clambered | advcl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 spider | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 spider | det |
| 10 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spider | amod |
| 11 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wandered | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 wandered | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shrimps | det |
| 15 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wandered | nsubj |
| 16 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clambered | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 20 haste | case |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 haste | case |
| 19 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 haste | amod |
| 20 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wandered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 butterflies | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 butterflies | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 butterflies | det |
| 24 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wandered | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 moths | cc |
| 26 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 butterflies | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 moths | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clambered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clamber | past | a crab | over turbot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | a crab not said here | like a gigantic spider | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wander | past | the shrimps | about restless haste; like the butterflies and moths of the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about haste=Trajectory |
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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