Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 31

First they peeped into the basket containing the eels and the sucking-pig; then they must needs pull out the pig and take it in their hands, and feel it, and touch it; and as they both wanted to hold it at the same time, the consequence was that they let it fall into the water, and the pig sailed away with the stream.

Who acts: horses, basket, consequence, pig · What happens: peep, contain, suck, pull out, take, feel · To what, where: eels, pig, basket, hands, water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, basket, consequence, pig), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 peeped	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 peeped	nsubj
3	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 basket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peeped	obl
7	containing	contain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 basket	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eels	det
9	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 containing	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pig	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pig	det
12	sucking	suck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 pig	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sucking	punct
14	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eels	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 pull	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 pull	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 pull	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 pull	aux
19	needs	need	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pull	nsubj
20	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 peeped	parataxis
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 pull	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pig	det
23	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pull	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pull	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hands	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 take	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 feel	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feel	cc
32	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 pull	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 feel	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 touch	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 touch	cc
36	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 feel	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 touch	obj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 wanted	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wanted	cc
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 wanted	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 wanted	nsubj
42	both	both	ADV	_	43 wanted	advmod
43	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 peeped	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 hold	mark
45	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 wanted	xcomp
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hold	obj
47	at	at	ADP	_	50 time	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 time	det
49	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 time	amod
50	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hold	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 let	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 consequence	det
53	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 let	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 let	cop
55	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 let	mark
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 let	nsubj
57	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 wanted	conj
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 let	obj
59	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 let	xcomp
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 water	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 water	det
62	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 fall	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 sailed	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 sailed	cc
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 pig	det
66	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 sailed	nsubj
67	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 wanted	conj
68	away	away	ADV	_	67 sailed	advmod
69	with	with	ADP	_	71 stream	case
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 stream	det
71	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 sailed	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peep	past	horses = horse				into the basket; first property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into basket=Theme
2	contain	gerund	the basket not said here	the eels and the sucking pig				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot eel=Theme
3	suck	gerund						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pull out	must	horses = horse	the pig		then		tree rules
5	take	infinitive	horses = horse not said here	basket	horses's hands			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in hand=Location
6	feel	infinitive		basket				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	touch	infinitive		basket				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
8	want	past	horses = horse				both property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
9	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	horses = horse not said here	basket		time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
10	is	past	the consequence				let property	tree rules
11	fall	infinitive	the consequence not said here				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result
12	sail away	past	the pig				with the stream; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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