Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 48
This linen holds the water together so beautifully, that my hind legs quiver as if I were going to swim."
Who acts: linen, hind legs, I · What happens: hold, quiver, go, swim · To what, where: water
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 (linen, hind legs, I), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 linen | det |
| 2 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | nsubj |
| 3 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holds | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 holds | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 beautifully | advmod |
| 8 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 3 holds | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quiver | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 quiver | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 legs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 legs | amod |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 quiver | nsubj |
| 14 | quiver | quiver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 holds | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 going | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 going | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 going | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 quiver | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 swim | mark |
| 21 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 going | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | this linen | the water | beautifully, together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 2 | quiver | present | my hind legs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | swim | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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