Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Evening, sentence 7

But presently the little girl came forth again, crept quietly to the hen-house, pushed back the bolt, and slipped into the apartment of the hen and chickens.

Who acts: little girl, hen house · What happens: come, creep, push back, slip · To what, where: hen house, bolt, apartment

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 (little girl, hen house), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	5 girl	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	forth	forth	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crept	punct
10	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 crept	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
14	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 hen	punct
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pushed	punct
18	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 house	acl
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 pushed	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bolt	det
21	bolt	bolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pushed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 slipped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 slipped	cc
24	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 apartment	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 apartment	det
27	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 slipped	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 hen	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hen	det
30	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 apartment	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 chickens	cc
32	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hen	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the little girl			again	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	creep	past	the little girl not said here		the hen house		quietly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination
3	push back	participle	the hen house not said here	the bolt				vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme
4	slip	past			the apartment of the hen and chickens			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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