Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 113
One can run about on tallow candles there, and go in thin and come out fat."
Who acts: One · What happens: run about, go, come out · To what, where: tallow candles, thin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 candles | case |
| 6 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 candles | compound |
| 7 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 run | obl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 run | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 thin | case |
| 13 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | vocative |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run about | can | One | tallow candles; there | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on candle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | One not said here | thin | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in thin=Location | ||||
| 3 | come out | present | One not said here | fat vocative; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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