Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 69

There was life in this stick for the little ones, for as soon as they seated themselves upon it the polished knob turned into a neighing horse's head, a long black mane was fluttering in the wind, and four strong slender legs grew out.

Who acts: life, eyes, long black mane, four strong slender legs · What happens: be, seat, polish, turn, neigh, flutter · To what, where: stick, eyes, polished knob, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, eyes, long black mane, four strong slender legs), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 stick	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 stick	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 ones	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ones	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stick	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seated	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 soon	case
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 soon	advmod
14	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 seated	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 seated	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seated	nsubj
17	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 seated	obj
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seated	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 knob	det
22	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 knob	amod
23	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seated	obj
24	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 knob	acl
25	into	into	ADP	_	30 head	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 horse	det
27	neighing	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 horse	amod
28	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 head	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 horse	case
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 turned	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fluttering	punct
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mane	det
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mane	amod
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 mane	amod
35	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fluttering	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 fluttering	aux
37	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 knob	acl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 wind	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 wind	det
40	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fluttering	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 grew	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 grew	cc
43	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 legs	nummod
44	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 legs	amod
45	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 legs	amod
46	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 grew	nsubj
47	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
48	out	out	ADP	_	47 grew	compound:prt
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	life		this stick for the little ones; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stick=Location
2	seat	past	eyes = eye	eyes = eye		upon stick; soon property	tree rules
3	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	turn	participle		the polished knob not said here	a neighing horse's head		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into head=Trajectory
5	neigh	gerund					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	flutter	past · progressive	a long black mane	the polished knob not said here		in the wind	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent knob=Patient in wind=Topic
7	grow out	past	four strong slender legs				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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