Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 59
His gun lay near him in the snow; he took it up and tried to discharge it, but it missed fire.
Who acts: gun, ring · What happens: lie, take up, try, discharge, miss · To what, where: snow, ring, fire
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gun, ring), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gun | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 snow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snow | det |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 discharge | mark |
| 17 | discharge | discharge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 discharge | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 missed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 missed | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 missed | nsubj |
| 22 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 missed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Rudy's gun | the snow | near Rudy | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near he=Location | |||
| 2 | take up | past | gun | ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | past | gun not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | discharge not said to happen | to-infinitive | gun not said here | ring | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | miss | past | ring | fire | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
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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