Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 130
His arm was flung around me, and mine was round his neck.
Who acts: mine · What happens: fling, be · To what, where: arm
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mine), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 arm | nmod:poss |
| 2 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flung | aux:pass |
| 4 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 flung | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 neck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 neck | cc |
| 9 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 neck | cop |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 neck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flung | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | past · passive | Aphtanides's arm | around me | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme around i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mine | round Aphtanides's neck | 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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