Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 8

And the rich people drove out, and the poor walked, but the way seemed strangely long to them; and when they came to a clump of willows which grew on the skirts of the forest, they sat down, and looked up at the long branches, and fancied they were now in the depth of the green wood.

Who acts: rich people, poor, way, People, willows · What happens: drive out, walk, seem, come, grow, sit down · To what, where: clump, skirts, depth

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 (rich people, poor, way, People), 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	_	5 drove	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drove	nsubj
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 drove	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 walked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walked	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 poor	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drove	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 seemed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 walked	parataxis
17	strangely	strangely	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 seemed	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 long	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sat	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 came	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sat	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 clump	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 clump	det
28	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 willows	case
30	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 clump	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 grew	nsubj
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 willows	acl:relcl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 skirts	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 skirts	det
35	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 grew	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 skirts	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 sat	nsubj
41	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drove	parataxis
42	down	down	ADP	_	41 sat	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 looked	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 looked	cc
45	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sat	conj
46	up	up	ADP	_	45 looked	compound:prt
47	at	at	ADP	_	50 branches	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 branches	det
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 branches	amod
50	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 looked	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 fancied	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 fancied	cc
53	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sat	conj
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 depth	nsubj
55	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 depth	cop
56	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	59 depth	advmod
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 depth	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 depth	det
59	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 fancied	ccomp
60	of	of	ADP	_	63 wood	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 wood	det
62	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 wood	amod
63	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 depth	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive out	past	the rich people				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past	the poor				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	the way			long property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	People	a clump of willows			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clump=Initial_Location
5	grow	past	willows	the skirts of the forest			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skirt=Location
6	sit down	past	People				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	look up	past	People not said here			at the long branches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at branch=Theme
8	fancy	past	People not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	past	People	the depth	now	of the green wood	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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