Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 38
Now all the people went out of church, and the old lady got into her carriage.
Who acts: people, old lady · What happens: go out, get · To what, where: church, carriage
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, old lady), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 church | case |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lady | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lady | amod |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 carriage | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | all people | church | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | the old lady | lady's carriage | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination |
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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