Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 9
She snatched the sharp knife from her girdle, and rushed like lightning at the astonished priest. "
Who acts: garment · What happens: snatch, rush · To what, where: sharp knife, girdle, astonished priest
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garment), 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 snatched | nsubj |
| 2 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 knife | amod |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snatched | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 girdle | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snatched | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rushed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rushed | cc |
| 11 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 snatched | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 lightning | case |
| 13 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rushed | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 priest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 16 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 priest | amod |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rushed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 snatched | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | garment | the sharp knife | garment's girdle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from girdle=Source | |||
| 2 | rush | participle | the astonished priest | like lightning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at priest=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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