Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 97
The older persons followed quietly; the little ones stood quite still.
Who acts: older persons, little ones · What happens: follow, stand
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (older persons, little ones), 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 | 3 persons | det |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 persons | amod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 followed | nsubj |
| 4 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 4 followed | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ones | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 followed | conj |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 still | advmod |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the older persons | quietly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the little ones | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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