Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 52
We both cried; but in the afternoon we went up the Round Tower, and looked down on Copenhagen, and far, far away over the water; then we went to Friedericksberg, where the King and the Queen were sailing about in their splendid barges.'
Who acts: We, King · What happens: cry, go up, look down, go, sail · To what, where: Round Tower, Friedericksberg, splendid barges
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 (We, King), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 afternoon | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 afternoon | det |
| 8 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tower | det |
| 13 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tower | compound |
| 14 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 looked | compound:prt |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Copenhagen | case |
| 20 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 away | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 away | cc |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 far | punct |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 away | advmod |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 away | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 went | advmod |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Friedericksberg | case |
| 35 | Friedericksberg | Friedericksberg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sailing | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 sailing | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 King | det |
| 39 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 sailing | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Queen | cc |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Queen | det |
| 42 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 King | conj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sailing | aux |
| 44 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 went | parataxis |
| 45 | about | about | ADV | _ | 44 sailing | advmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 barges | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 barges | nmod:poss |
| 48 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 barges | amod |
| 49 | barges | barge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 sailing | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 51 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | We | away, both property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | we | the Round Tower | afternoon | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | look down | past | We not said here | on Copenhagen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on copenhagen=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | we | Friedericksberg | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to friedericksberg=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | sail | past · progressive | the King and the Queen | King's splendid barges | about property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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