Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 143
Instinctively, the clerk obeyed, and left the cage; at the same moment the half-opened door leading into the next room creaked on its hinges, and, stealthily, with green fiery eyes, the cat crept in and chased the lark round the room.
Who acts: clerk, opened door, cat · What happens: obey, leave, open, lead, creak, creep in · To what, where: cage, next room, hinges, lark, room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, opened door, cat), 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 | Instinctively | instinctively | ADV | _ | 5 obeyed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instinctively | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clerk | det |
| 4 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obeyed | nsubj |
| 5 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 obeyed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cage | det |
| 10 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 moment | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obeyed | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 opened | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 half | punct |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 door | amod |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moment | nmod |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 door | acl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 room | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 24 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 room | amod |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leading | obl |
| 26 | creaked | creak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 room | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 hinges | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hinges | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 creaked | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 eyes | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eyes | cc |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stealthily | punct |
| 33 | stealthily | stealthily | ADV | _ | 38 eyes | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 eyes | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 eyes | case |
| 36 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 eyes | amod |
| 37 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 eyes | amod |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 door | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 crept | punct |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 cat | det |
| 41 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 crept | nsubj |
| 42 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 door | parataxis |
| 43 | in | in | ADV | _ | 42 crept | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 chased | cc |
| 45 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 crept | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 lark | det |
| 47 | lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 chased | obj |
| 48 | round | round | ADP | _ | 50 room | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 room | det |
| 50 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 chased | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the clerk | moment | instinctively property | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the clerk not said here | the cage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | lead | gerund | the opened door and green fiery eyes not said here | the next room | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into room=Destination | ||||
| 5 | creak | participle | the next room not said here | cage's hinges | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hinge=Location | ||||
| 6 | creep in | past | the cat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | chase | past | the cat not said here | the lark | the room | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lark=Theme round room=Trajectory |
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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