Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 3
When quite a little child she would delight in catching flies, and tearing off their wings, so as to make creeping things of them.
Who acts: little child · What happens: delight, tear off, make, creep · To what, where: wings, things
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little child), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 delight | mark |
| 2 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 child | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 delight | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 delight | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 delight | aux |
| 8 | delight | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 flies | case |
| 10 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flies | compound |
| 11 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 delight | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tearing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tearing | cc |
| 14 | tearing | tear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 delight | advcl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 tearing | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wings | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tearing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 make | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 make | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 delight | conj |
| 23 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 make | xcomp |
| 24 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 creeping | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 things | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 delight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delight | would | quite little child | in catching flies | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tear off | gerund | quite little child not said here | flies's wings | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | quite little child not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | creep | gerund | quite little child not said here | things of things | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thing=Theme |
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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