Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 14
Then he tried to pull his head back again, but without success; he could move his neck about easily enough, and that was all.
Who acts: body · What happens: try, pull back, move · To what, where: head, neck
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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 tried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pull | mark |
| 5 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pull | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 pull | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 pull | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 success | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 success | cc |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 success | case |
| 13 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 move | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 move | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 move | aux |
| 17 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 move | obj |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 easily | advmod |
| 21 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 17 move | advmod |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 easily | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 all | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 all | cc |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 all | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 all | cop |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 move | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | body | then | without success | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | pull back not said to happen | to-infinitive | body not said here | body's head | again | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | move | could | body | body's neck | all obl; easily property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=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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