Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 96

And he turned out his pockets, and flung the wet clay full in the head clerk's face.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: turn out, fling · To what, where: pockets, wet clay

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 turned	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pockets	nmod:poss
6	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flung	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flung	cc
9	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 clay	det
11	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clay	amod
12	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flung	obj
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 clay	amod
14	in	in	ADP	_	19 face	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 clerk	det
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clerk	compound
17	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 face	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 clerk	case
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn out	past	Jack	Jack's pockets					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pocket=Theme
2	fling	past	Jack not said here	the wet clay					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Theme

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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