Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 38

"Look out for the drumsticks," replied Peter; and, small as he was, he ran up boldly, and gave the foremost such a punch in the body with his fist, that the fellow lost his legs and tumbled over, and the others took their legs off with themselves very rapidly.

Who acts: Peter, Drum, fellow, others · What happens: look out, reply, be, run up, give, lose · To what, where: foremost punch, body, legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Drum, fellow, others), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	ccomp
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 Look	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 drumsticks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drumsticks	det
6	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 small	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 small	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 small	punct
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replied	parataxis
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 small	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 small	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 ran	compound:prt
22	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 ran	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ran	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 punch	det
27	foremost	foremost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 punch	amod
28	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	30 punch	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 punch	det
30	punch	punch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 body	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 body	det
33	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 punch	nmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 fist	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 fist	nmod:poss
36	fist	fist	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gave	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 lost	punct
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 lost	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fellow	det
40	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 lost	nsubj
41	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gave	parataxis
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 legs	nmod:poss
43	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 lost	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 tumbled	cc
45	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 lost	conj
46	over	over	ADV	_	45 tumbled	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 took	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 took	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 others	det
50	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 took	nsubj
51	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gave	conj
52	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 legs	nmod:poss
53	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 took	obj
54	off	off	ADV	_	51 took	advmod
55	with	with	ADP	_	56 themselves	case
56	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 took	obl
57	very	very	ADV	_	58 rapidly	advmod
58	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	51 took	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look out in a quote	infinitive				for the drumsticks	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for drumstick=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	Peter				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	past	Drum				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run up	past	Drum			boldly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	Drum not said here	the foremost punch	the body	with Drum's fist	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Theme
6	lose	past	the fellow	Drum's legs			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality
7	tumble over	participle	the fellow not said here			over property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	take off	past	the others	others's legs		with others = other; off, rapidly property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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