Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 142
She was overpowered by them, and sank down and crept along for some distance on the ground. "
Who acts: vice · What happens: overpower, sink down, creep · To what, where: Anne
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vice), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 overpowered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overpowered | aux:pass |
| 3 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 overpowered | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sank | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sank | cc |
| 8 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overpowered | parataxis |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 sank | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crept | cc |
| 11 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sank | conj |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 crept | advmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 distance | det |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crept | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 distance | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overpowered | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 overpowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overpower | past · passive | vice | Anne | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sink down | past | down property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | creep | past | for some distance on the ground; along property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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