Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy, sentence 36
When the university students come from the lectures, he runs beside them in a black coat, and with a book under his arm.
Who acts: university students, child · What happens: come, run · To what, where: lectures, black coat
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Naughty Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (university students, child), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 students | det |
| 3 | university | university | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 students | compound |
| 4 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 runs | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 lectures | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lectures | det |
| 8 | lectures | lecture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 runs | nsubj |
| 11 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 runs | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 coat | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 coat | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coat | amod |
| 17 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 runs | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 book | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 book | cc |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 book | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 book | det |
| 22 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 runs | obl |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 arm | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arm | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 book | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the university students | the lectures | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lecture=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | run | present | child | a black coat | beside students = student; with a book under child's arm | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory |
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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