Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 66

Dear me, how they did throw their legs about!

Who acts: girls · What happens: throw · To what, where: legs

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 (girls), 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	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Dear	iobj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 throw	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 throw	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 throw	nsubj
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 throw	aux
7	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dear	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 throw	obj
10	about	about	ADV	_	7 throw	advmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · do-support	girls = girl	girls's legs				about property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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