Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 12
Her feet moved very fast, "trip, trip;" good gracious, how she could trip right down to the sea to the night-raven.
Who acts: feet, maiden · What happens: move, trip · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, maiden), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 feet | nmod:poss |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 moved | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trip | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 trip | punct |
| 8 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 trip | punct |
| 10 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trip | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gracious | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 gracious | punct |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gracious | amod |
| 14 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moved | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trip | punct |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 trip | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 trip | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 trip | aux |
| 19 | trip | trip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gracious | parataxis |
| 20 | right | right | ADV | _ | 21 down | advmod |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 trip | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trip | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 raven | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 raven | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 raven | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 night | punct |
| 29 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trip | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | maiden's feet | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trip | could | maiden | the sea | to the night raven; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |
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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