Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 36

The others were either blind, or had withered legs, which obliged them to creep about on their hands and knees, or they had shrivelled arms and hands without fingers.

Who acts: others, withered legs, legs · What happens: be, wither, oblige, creep, shrivell · To what, where: others, hands, arms

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, withered legs, legs), 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 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blind	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	cop
4	either	either	CCONJ	_	5 blind	cc:preconj
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 withered	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 withered	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 withered	aux
9	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 legs	amod
10	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 obliged	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 obliged	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 obliged	nsubj
13	obliged	oblige	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 obliged	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 creep	mark
16	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 obliged	xcomp
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 creep	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 hands	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 creep	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 knees	cc
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hands	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shrivelled	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 shrivelled	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shrivelled	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shrivelled	aux
27	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 blind	conj
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shrivelled	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hands	cc
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 arms	conj
31	without	without	ADP	_	32 fingers	case
32	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shrivelled	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the others			blind property	tree rules
2	wither	past · perfect					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	oblige	past	withered legs	others = other			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result
4	creep	to-infinitive	withered legs not said here		others's hands and knees	about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory
5	shrivell	past · perfect	legs = leg	arms and hands		without fingers	tree rules

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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