Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 83
"A story, a story," cried the children, pulling a little fat man towards the tree.
Who acts: story · What happens: cry, pull · To what, where: children, little fat man, tree
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 (story), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 story | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 story | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pulling | punct |
| 13 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 16 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulling | obj |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pulling | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a story and a story | the children | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | a story and a story not said here | a little fat man | the tree | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme towards tree=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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