Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 88
So he seized the chest in his hand and lifted it up a little, as if he were going to throw it into the water.
Who acts: water · What happens: seize, lift up, go, throw · To what, where: chest, hand, water
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 (water), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 seized | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chest | det |
| 5 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lifted | cc |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seized | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lifted | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 lifted | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lifted | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 going | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 going | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 lifted | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 throw | mark |
| 22 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 going | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 throw | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | water | the chest | water's hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme | |||
| 2 | lift up | past | water not said here | chest | a little obl:unmarked | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | water | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | throw | to-infinitive | water not said here | chest | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into water=Result |
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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