Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 98

And on they rode round the grass-plot; and the little maiden, who, we know, was no one else but old Nanny, kept on crying out, “Now we are in the country!

Who acts: miles, we · What happens: ride, know, be, keep, cry out · To what, where: grass plot, one, country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (miles, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 rode	cc
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 rode	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	csubj
5	round	round	ADP	_	9 plot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plot	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plot	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grass	punct
9	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 maiden	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 maiden	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maiden	obl:unmarked
14	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rode	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 who	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	14 maiden	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 know	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	else	else	ADV	_	23 one	advmod
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 Nanny	cc
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Nanny	amod
27	Nanny	Nanny	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 one	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 kept	punct
29	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 one	parataxis
30	on	on	SCONJ	_	31 crying	mark
31	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 kept	advcl
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 crying	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 country	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 country	punct
35	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 country	advmod
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 country	nsubj
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 country	cop
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 country	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 country	det
40	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 crying	obl
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	miles = mile		the grass plot			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round plot=Trajectory
2	know	present	we					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past		no one but old Nanny			else property	tree rules
4	keep	participle						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	cry out speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	we		the country	now		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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