Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 36
The children held them to their mouths, and tried to blow away the whole coronal with one puff of the breath.
Who acts: children · What happens: hold, try, blow away, puff · To what, where: feathers, whole coronal, breath
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mouths | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tried | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tried | cc |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 blow | mark |
| 12 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADP | _ | 12 blow | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 coronal | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 coronal | amod |
| 16 | coronal | coronal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blow | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 puff | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 puff | nummod |
| 19 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blow | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 breath | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 breath | det |
| 22 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 puff | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the children | feathers = feather | to children's mouths | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | try | past | the children not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | blow away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the children not said here | the whole coronal | with one puff of the breath | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent coronal=Patient | |||
| 4 | puff | the breath | nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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