Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 156
And she threw herself upon the earth, and with her hands dug a grave in the hard ground, so that the blood ran from her fingers. "
Who acts: name, hands, blood · What happens: throw, dig, run · To what, where: name, earth, grave, hard ground, fingers
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 (name, hands, blood), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 threw | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 earth | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 earth | det |
| 7 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dug | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dug | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 hands | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dug | nsubj |
| 13 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grave | det |
| 15 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dug | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ground | amod |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dug | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ran | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 ran | advmod |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 ran | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blood | det |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ran | nsubj |
| 25 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 fingers | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ran | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | name | name | the earth | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon earth=Destination | |||
| 2 | dig | past | name's hands | a grave | the hard ground | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grave=Theme in ground=Location | |||
| 3 | run | past | the blood | name's fingers | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from finger=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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