Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 22
The boy went on his way with his cap in his hand, while the wind fluttered his golden hair till the locks stood up straight.
Who acts: boy, wind, locks · What happens: go, flutter, stand up · To what, where: way, golden hair
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, wind, locks), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 cap | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cap | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fluttered | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 fluttered | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fluttered | nsubj |
| 17 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hair | amod |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fluttered | obj |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 stood | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 locks | det |
| 23 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stood | nsubj |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 fluttered | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 stood | compound:prt |
| 26 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 24 stood | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | boy's way | with boy's cap; in boy's hand | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with cap=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | flutter | past | the wind | boy's golden hair | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand up | past | the locks | straight property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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