Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 103
Then the rough doll ran to the end of the table, laid himself flat down upon it, and began to pull the drawer out a little way.
Who acts: rough doll · What happens: run, lay, begin, pull out · To what, where: knocking, doll, drawer
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rough doll), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doll | det |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doll | amod |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 laid | obj |
| 15 | flat | flat | ADV | _ | 16 down | advmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 laid | advmod |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laid | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pull | mark |
| 23 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 drawer | det |
| 25 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pull | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 pull | compound:prt |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 way | det |
| 28 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 way | amod |
| 29 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pull | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the rough doll | to the end of the table; then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the rough doll not said here | knocking | doll | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon it=Destination | ||
| 3 | begin | past | the rough doll not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pull out | to-infinitive | the rough doll not said here | the drawer | a little way obl:unmarked | tree rules |
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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