Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 30
On he went at full gallop, still galloping on and on.
Who acts: many · What happens: go, gallop on · To what, where: full gallop
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 gallop | case |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gallop | amod |
| 6 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 galloping | punct |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 galloping | advmod |
| 9 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 galloping | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 on | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 on | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | many | full gallop | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at gallop=Location | ||||
| 2 | gallop on | gerund | many not said here | still | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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