Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 109

They went hand in hand, as the old people had done when they were children; but not to the Round Tower, or to Friedericksberg; no, the little damsel wound her arms round the boy, and then they flew far away through all Denmark.

Who acts: sparks, old people · What happens: go, do, be, fly · To what, where: hand, children, Denmark

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparks, old people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 hand	case
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 done	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 done	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	conj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 children	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 children	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 children	cop
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 done	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 Tower	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 Tower	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 Tower	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 Tower	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Tower	det
22	Round	Round	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tower	compound
23	Tower	Tower	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Friedericksberg	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 Friedericksberg	cc
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Friedericksberg	case
27	Friedericksberg	Friedericksberg	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Tower	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 damsel	punct
29	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	33 damsel	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 no	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 damsel	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 damsel	amod
33	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	parataxis
34	wound	wound	ADP	_	36 arms	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 arms	nmod:poss
36	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 damsel	nmod
37	round	round	ADP	_	39 boy	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boy	det
39	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 arms	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 flew	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 flew	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	44 flew	advmod
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 flew	nsubj
44	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
45	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 away	advmod
46	away	away	ADV	_	44 flew	advmod
47	through	through	ADP	_	49 Denmark	case
48	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 Denmark	det
49	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 flew	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	sparks = spark	hand	hand		to the Round Tower or Friedericksberg	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	the old people					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	sparks = spark	children				tree rules
4	fly	past	sparks = spark		all Denmark	then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through denmark=Location

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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