Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 25

But two of the youngest soon grew tired, and both returned to town; two little girls sat down, and twined garlands, so they did not go either; and when the others reached the willow-tree, where the confectioner was, they said, “Now we are there!

Who acts: two, both, two little girls, girls, others, confectioner · What happens: grow, return, sit down, twine, not go, reach · To what, where: garlands, willow tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, both, two little girls, girls), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 grew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 youngest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youngest	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 two	nmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 grew	advmod
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grew	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 returned	cc
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 returned	nsubj
12	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 town	case
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 girls	nummod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girls	amod
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sat	nsubj
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 sat	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 twined	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 twined	cc
23	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sat	conj
24	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 twined	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 go	advmod
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 twined	conj
31	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 go	advmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 reached	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 reached	cc
34	when	when	SCONJ	_	37 reached	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 others	det
36	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 reached	nsubj
37	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tree	det
39	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tree	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 willow	punct
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reached	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	49 said	advmod
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 confectioner	det
45	confectioner	confectioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 said	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 said	cop
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 said	punct
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 said	nsubj
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tree	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 there	punct
51	“	"	PUNCT	_	55 there	punct
52	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 there	advmod
53	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 there	nsubj
54	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 there	cop
55	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 said	parataxis
56	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	two of the youngest			soon, tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	return	past	both			to town result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result
3	sit down	past	two little girls				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	twine	past	two little girls not said here	garlands			vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent garland=Theme
5	not go	past · do-support	girls = girl			either property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reach	past	the others	the willow tree			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
7	be speech: assert	past	the confectioner			say property	tree rules
8	is in a quote	present	we		now	there property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/18/25/