Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 10
I was angry with the willful child, and felt glad when her father came out and scolded her more violently than yesterday, holding her roughly by the arm; she held down her head, and her blue eyes were full of large tears. '
Who acts: I, father, child, blue eyes · What happens: be, feel, come out, scold, hold, hold down · To what, where: child, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, father, child, blue eyes), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 angry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | cop |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 6 | willful | willful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 angry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 felt | cc |
| 10 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | conj |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 felt | xcomp |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 felt | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 came | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scolded | cc |
| 18 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 scolded | obj |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 violently | advmod |
| 21 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 18 scolded | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 yesterday | case |
| 23 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 violently | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 holding | punct |
| 25 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 scolded | advcl |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 holding | obj |
| 27 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 25 holding | advmod |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 arm | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 arm | det |
| 30 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 holding | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 held | punct |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 held | nsubj |
| 33 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 angry | parataxis |
| 34 | down | down | ADP | _ | 33 held | compound:prt |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 head | nmod:poss |
| 36 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 held | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 full | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 full | cc |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 40 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 eyes | amod |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 full | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 full | cop |
| 43 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 held | parataxis |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 tears | case |
| 45 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 tears | amod |
| 46 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 full | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 angry | punct |
| 48 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | with the willful child; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | I not said here | glad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | child's father | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | scold | past | child's father not said here | child | violently property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 5 | hold | gerund | child's father not said here | child | by the arm; roughly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme by arm=Location | |||
| 6 | hold down | past | child | child's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | past | child's blue eyes | of large tears; full property | tree rules |
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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