Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 146

One of them drew a small pair of scissors from her pocket, and cut the worsted without hurting the beetle, and when she stepped on shore she placed him on the grass. "

Who acts: One, use · What happens: draw, cut, worst, hurt, step, place · To what, where: small pair, beetle, shore, grass

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, use), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 drew	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pair	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pair	amod
7	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drew	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 scissors	case
9	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pair	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 pocket	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pocket	nmod:poss
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 scissors	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cut	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cut	cc
15	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 worsted	det
17	worsted	worst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 cut	ccomp
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 hurting	mark
19	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 worsted	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beetle	det
21	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hurting	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 placed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 placed	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 stepped	advmod
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stepped	nsubj
26	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 placed	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 shore	case
28	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stepped	obl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	nsubj
30	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drew	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 grass	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grass	det
34	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	draw	past	One of girls	a small pair of scissors from use's pocket		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme
2	cut	past	One of girls not said here			tree rules
3	worst	participle	One of girls not said here			tree rules
4	hurt	gerund	One of girls not said here	the beetle		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beetle=Patient
5	step	past	use		shore	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory
6	place	past	use	beetle	the grass	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on grass=Destination

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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