Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 65

The young woman, with the child in her arms, slipped upon it, sank in, and disappeared.

Who acts: young woman · What happens: slip, sink in, disappear

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young woman), 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	3 woman	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slipped	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 woman	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 arms	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arms	nmod:poss
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 child	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
12	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slipped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sank	punct
16	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slipped	conj
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 sank	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 disappeared	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 disappeared	cc
20	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slipped	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 slipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	slip	past	the young woman and the child in height's arms	upon snow	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sink in	past	the young woman and the child in height's arms not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	disappear	past	the young woman and the child in height's arms not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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