Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 90
She removed the iron bolt from the closed cellar-door, and slipped in to the prisoner.
Who acts: Helga · What happens: remove, close, slip in · To what, where: iron bolt, closed cellar door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helga), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 removed | nsubj |
| 2 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bolt | det |
| 4 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bolt | amod |
| 5 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 removed | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 8 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 door | amod |
| 9 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 cellar | punct |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 removed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slipped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slipped | cc |
| 14 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 removed | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 slipped | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 prisoner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prisoner | det |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | Helga | the iron bolt | the closed cellar door | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme from door=Source | |||
| 2 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | slip in | past | to the prisoner | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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