Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 92

So she took him by the wrist, and he laughed till he nearly choked; and when she came to the fourth finger, there was a gold ring on it, as if it knew there was to be a betrothal.

Who acts: world, raven, ring, betrothal · What happens: take, laugh, choke, come, be, know · To what, where: raven, fourth finger, gold ring, ring, betrothal · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (world, raven, ring, betrothal), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 wrist	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wrist	det
7	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laughed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laughed	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laughed	nsubj
11	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 choked	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 choked	nsubj
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 choked	advmod
15	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 laughed	advcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 ring	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 came	advmod
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 was	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 finger	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 finger	det
23	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 finger	amod
24	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 ring	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 ring	det
29	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ring	compound
30	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ring	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 knew	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 knew	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
38	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	39 was	expl
39	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 knew	ccomp
40	to	to	PART	_	43 betrothal	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 betrothal	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 betrothal	det
43	betrothal	betrothal	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 was	nsubj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	world		raven		by the wrist	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	laugh	past	raven					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	choke	past	raven				nearly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	come	past	world			the fourth finger		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to finger=Initial_Location
5	is a	past		a gold ring		ring		tree rules
6	know a condition, not said to happen	past	ring					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	be	past	a betrothal			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	to-infinitive		a betrothal				tree rules

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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