Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 25
And what was still more wonderful, the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled across the floor, with a knife and fork in its breast, to the little girl.
Who acts: goose · What happens: be, jump down, waddle · To what, where: dish, floor
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goose), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wonderful | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 wonderful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonderful | cop |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 wonderful | advmod |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goose | det |
| 9 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wonderful | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 jumped | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 dish | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dish | det |
| 14 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 waddled | cc |
| 16 | waddled | waddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 17 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 floor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 floor | det |
| 19 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waddled | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knife | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 knife | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 knife | det |
| 23 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waddled | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fork | cc |
| 25 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knife | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 breast | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 breast | nmod:poss |
| 28 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knife | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 girl | punct |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 girl | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 girl | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 girl | amod |
| 33 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 waddled | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wonderful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | jump down | past | the goose | the dish | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from dish=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | waddle | past | the goose not said here | the floor | with a knife in fork's breast and fork | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory |
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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