Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 132
Again and again he bawled it out, but as she did not stir he flew into a passion, and threw the glass of mead in her face; it struck her on the nose, and she fell backwards out of the cart, for she was only seated there, not tied in.
Who acts: landlord, woman, glass · What happens: bawl out, not stir, fly, throw, strike, fall · To what, where: glass, passion, face, woman, cart
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, woman, glass), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 5 bawled | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 again | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Again | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bawled | nsubj |
| 5 | bawled | bawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bawled | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 bawled | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stir | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stir | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 stir | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stir | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stir | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 stir | advmod |
| 14 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bawled | conj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stir | ccomp |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 passion | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 passion | det |
| 19 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 flew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 glass | det |
| 24 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 mead | case |
| 26 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 glass | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 face | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 face | nmod:poss |
| 29 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 struck | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 struck | nsubj |
| 32 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bawled | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 struck | obj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 nose | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 nose | det |
| 36 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 struck | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fell | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 fell | cc |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 fell | nsubj |
| 40 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bawled | conj |
| 41 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 40 fell | advmod |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 cart | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 cart | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 cart | det |
| 45 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 seated | punct |
| 47 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 51 seated | mark |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 seated | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 seated | aux:pass |
| 50 | only | only | ADV | _ | 51 seated | advmod |
| 51 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fell | parataxis |
| 52 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 seated | advmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 tied | punct |
| 54 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 55 tied | advmod |
| 55 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 seated | conj |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 tied | compound:prt |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bawled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bawl out speech: other | past | landlord | glass | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | not stir | past · do-support | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly | past | landlord | into a passion result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into passion=Result | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | landlord not said here | the glass of mead | woman's face | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent glass=Theme in face=Destination | |||
| 5 | strike | past | glass | woman | on the nose | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument on nose=Patient | |||
| 6 | fall | past | woman | the cart | backwards property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out cart=Location | |||
| 7 | seat | past · passive | woman | there | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 8 | not tie in | participle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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