Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 83
The man then pulled his nose gently, which caused him to lose his balance.
Who acts: man · What happens: pull, cause, lose, balance · To what, where: nose, man, balance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nose | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 caused | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 caused | nsubj |
| 10 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 caused | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lose | mark |
| 13 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 caused | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 balance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lose | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | the man | man's nose | then | gently property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme | ||
| 2 | cause | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lose | to-infinitive | man not said here | man's balance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | balance | man | nom balance «state 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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