Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 86
And he brought out the old wooden shoe, and put the crow into it.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: bring out, put · To what, where: old wooden shoe, crow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 brought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 brought | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoe | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoe | amod |
| 7 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoe | amod |
| 8 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brought | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crow | det |
| 13 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | past | Jack | the old wooden shoe | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Jack not said here | the crow | into crow | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent crow=Goal |
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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