Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 4
The thorny creeping plants tore her sandals, but for all that she came rapidly forward.
Who acts: thorny creeping plants, thought · What happens: creep, tore, come · To what, where: sandals
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorny creeping plants, thought), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 plants | det |
| 2 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 plants | amod |
| 3 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 plants | amod |
| 4 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tore | nsubj |
| 5 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tore | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 came | advmod |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 all | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tore | conj |
| 15 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 16 forward | advmod |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | tore | past | the thorny creeping plants | thought's sandals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | thought | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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