Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 76

They placed themselves by the ear of the sleeper, told him dreadful dreams and then flew across his lips, and pricked his tongue with their poisoned spears. "

Who acts: spears · What happens: place, tell, fly, prick, poison · To what, where: spears, dreadful dreams, spirit, lips, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spears), 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 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 placed	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 ear	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sleeper	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sleeper	det
9	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ear	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dreams	amod
14	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 flew	advmod
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
18	across	across	ADP	_	20 lips	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lips	nmod:poss
20	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 flew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pricked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pricked	cc
23	pricked	prick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tongue	nmod:poss
25	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pricked	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 spears	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 spears	nmod:poss
28	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 spears	amod
29	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pricked	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 placed	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	spears = spear	spears = spear				by the ear of the sleeper	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme by ear=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past		dreadful dreams	spirit				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dream=Topic
3	fly	past				spirit's lips	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across lip=Trajectory
4	prick	past	spears = spear not said here	spirit's tongue				with spears's poisoned spears	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient with spear=Instrument
5	poison	participle							vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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