Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 5

Then she pushed a green leaf, or a little scrap of paper towards their feet, and when the poor creatures would seize it and hold it fast, and turn over and over in their struggles to get free from the pin, she would say, "The cockchafer is reading; see how he turns over the leaf."

Who acts: child, poor creatures, cockchafer, Inge, pins · What happens: push, seize, hold, turn, get, say · To what, where: green leaf, feet, leaf, struggles · Speech: someone speaks here

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, poor creatures, cockchafer, Inge), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 pushed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaf	amod
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 scrap	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 scrap	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 scrap	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scrap	amod
11	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 paper	case
13	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 scrap	nmod
14	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 feet	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feet	nmod:poss
16	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pushed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seize	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seize	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 seize	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 creatures	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 creatures	amod
22	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 seize	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 seize	aux
24	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pushed	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seize	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hold	cc
27	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 seize	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hold	obj
29	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hold	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 turn	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 turn	cc
32	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	conj
33	over	over	ADV	_	32 turn	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 over	cc
35	over	over	ADV	_	33 over	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 struggles	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 struggles	nmod:poss
38	struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 turn	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 get	mark
40	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 turn	advcl
41	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 get	xcomp
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 pin	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 pin	det
44	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 free	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 say	punct
46	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 say	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 say	aux
48	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pushed	parataxis
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 reading	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	54 reading	punct
51	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 cockchafer	det
52	cockchafer	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 reading	nsubj
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 reading	aux
54	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 say	conj
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 see	punct
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 say	conj
57	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	59 turns	advmod
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 turns	nsubj
59	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 see	ccomp
60	over	over	ADP	_	62 leaf	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 leaf	det
62	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 turns	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pushed	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	child	a green leaf	pins's feet	then	a little scrap of paper obl	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme towards foot=Trajectory
2	seize	would	the poor creatures	leaf				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	hold	infinitive	the poor creatures not said here	leaf			fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	turn	present	child not said here		pins's struggles		over property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in struggle=Trajectory
5	get	to-infinitive	child not said here				free property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	say speech: assert	would	child					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	read in a quote	present · progressive	the cockchafer					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	see in a quote	infinitive	child not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	turn in a quote	present	Inge		the leaf			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over leaf=Trajectory
10	struggle		pins = pin					nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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