Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 36

Suddenly the chamois made a spring, and his uncle fired and struck the animal with the deadly bullet; while the young kid rushed away, as if for a long life he had been accustomed to danger and practised flight.

Who acts: chamois, uncle · What happens: make, fire, strike, rush away, accustom, practise · To what, where: young kid, animal, uncle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamois, uncle), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chamois	det
3	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fired	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 uncle	nmod:poss
10	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fired	nsubj
11	fired	fire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 struck	cc
13	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fired	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 animal	det
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 bullet	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bullet	det
18	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bullet	amod
19	bullet	bullet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 struck	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 kid	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 kid	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kid	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 kid	amod
24	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
25	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 kid	acl
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 rushed	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 life	punct
28	as	as	ADP	_	33 life	case
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 life	mark
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 life	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 life	det
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 life	amod
33	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rushed	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 accustomed	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 accustomed	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 accustomed	aux:pass
37	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 life	acl:relcl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 danger	case
39	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 accustomed	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 flight	cc
41	practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 flight	amod
42	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 danger	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 kid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the chamois	the young kid	spring	suddenly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	fire	past	Rudy's uncle				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	strike	past	Rudy's uncle not said here	the animal		with the deadly bullet	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent animal=Patient with bullet=Instrument
4	rush away	participle		the young kid not said here		as a long life; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	accustom	past · perfect · passive		uncle		to danger and practised flight	tree rules
6	practise	participle					tree rules

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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