--- title: Like a ferocious animal, one of them rose out of his sleep and utter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Like a ferocious animal, one of them rose out of his sleep and uttered a horrible cry, and gave his comrade a violent dig in the ribs with his pointed elbow, and this one turned round in his sleep: Who acts: one, animal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Sto --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [A Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/) / 62 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 62 Like a ferocious animal, one of them rose out of his sleep and uttered a horrible cry, and gave his comrade a violent dig in the ribs with his pointed elbow, and this one turned round in his sleep: **Who acts:** one, animal · **What happens:** rise, utter, give, turn round, sleep · **To what, where:** sleep, horrible cry, comrade, ribs This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, animal), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:2:62 # text = Like a ferocious animal, one of them rose out of his sleep and uttered a horrible cry, and gave his comrade a violent dig in the ribs with his pointed elbow, and this one turned round in his sleep: 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 ferocious ferocious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 out out ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 comrade comrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 violent violent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 dig dig NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 pointed pointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 39 round round ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | one of dreams | | | animal's sleep | | like a ferocious animal | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sleep=Location | | 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | one of dreams *not said here* | a horrible cry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | | 3 | **give** | past | one of dreams *not said here* | animal's comrade | | the ribs | | with animal's pointed elbow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Recipient dig=Theme | | 4 | **turn round** | participle | this one | | | animal's sleep | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in sleep=Trajectory | | 5 | **sleep** | | animal | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **sleep** | | animal | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/63/) - ↑ back to [A Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/)