Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 32
After some time, the linen was taken into the house, placed under the scissors, and cut and torn into pieces, and then pricked with needles.
What happens: take, place, cut, tear, prick · To what, where: linen, house, scissors, pieces
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 linen | det |
| 6 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 taken | conj |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 scissors | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 scissors | det |
| 16 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 placed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cut | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cut | cc |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 taken | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 torn | cc |
| 21 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 cut | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 pieces | case |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 torn | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pricked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pricked | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 pricked | advmod |
| 27 | pricked | prick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 taken | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 needles | case |
| 29 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pricked | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the linen | the house | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | participle | the scissors | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under scissors=Destination | |||||
| 3 | cut | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | tear | participle | pieces | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into piece=Destination | |||||
| 5 | prick | participle | then | with needles | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with needle=Instrument |
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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