Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 82
No; the little girl seized the boy round the waist, and then they flew far into the country.
Who acts: little girl, sparks · What happens: seize, fly · To what, where: boy, country
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 (little girl, sparks), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 girl | discourse |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 waist | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waist | det |
| 11 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flew | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 flew | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | nsubj |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 flew | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the little girl | the boy | round the waist | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past | sparks = spark | then | into the country result; far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into country=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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