Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 94
The animal was strong and handsome, and away they went at full gallop round the lawn.
Who acts: animal, eyes · What happens: be, go · To what, where: full gallop
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 (animal, eyes), 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 | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 handsome | cc |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strong | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 gallop | case |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gallop | amod |
| 14 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 lawn | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lawn | det |
| 17 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the animal | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the animal not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | eyes = eye | full gallop | round the lawn; away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round lawn=Initial_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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