Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 52
I was before them, and jumped on the back of a chair.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, jump · To what, where: back
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 them | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 them | cop |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 jumped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 jumped | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jumped | cc |
| 7 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 back | det |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jumped | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chair | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chair | det |
| 13 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 back | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | before ears = ear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | the back of a chair | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=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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