Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 4

When older, she would take cockchafers and beetles, and stick pins through them.

Who acts: child · What happens: take, stick · To what, where: cockchafers, pins

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 (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	ADV	PronType=Int	2 older	advmod
2	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 older	parataxis
7	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 beetles	cc
9	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cockchafers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stick	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stick	cc
12	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
13	pins	pin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stick	obj
14	through	through	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stick	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 older	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	child	cockchafers and beetles					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockchafer=Theme
2	stick	infinitive	child not said here	pins				through pins = pin	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pin=Theme through they=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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