Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 16
On the high-road the pace was quicker yet.
Who acts: pace · What happens: be · To what, where: high road
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 (pace), 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 | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 road | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 high | punct |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quicker | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pace | det |
| 7 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quicker | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 quicker | cop |
| 9 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 quicker | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quicker | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pace | the high road | yet | quick property | 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: «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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