Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 15
The van rolled out through the town-gate as briskly as if it were going for a pleasant excursion.
Who acts: gate · What happens: roll out, go · To what, where: van, town gate
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 van | det |
| 2 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 briskly | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 van | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 rolled | compound:prt |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 town | punct |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rolled | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 briskly | advmod |
| 11 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 going | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 briskly | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 excursion | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 excursion | det |
| 19 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 excursion | amod |
| 20 | excursion | excursion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 briskly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll out | participle | the van not said here | the town gate | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | gate | for a pleasant excursion | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for excursion=Beneficiary |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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