Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 97
“We are riding away to the castle where we were last year!”
Who acts: We · What happens: ride away, be · To what, where: castle, last year
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 riding | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 riding | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 riding | aux |
| 4 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 riding | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 riding | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 year | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 year | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 year | cop |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 year | amod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 castle | nmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 riding | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 riding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away in a quote | present · progressive | We | the castle | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to castle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | we | last year | tree rules |
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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