Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 19
A hare jumped across the road and startled them, and they fairly ran away.
Who acts: hare, reins · What happens: jump, startle, run away · To what, where: road, reins
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 (hare, reins), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 road | det |
| 6 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 startled | cc |
| 8 | startled | startle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 startled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | a hare | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | startle | past | a hare not said here | reins = rein | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run away | past | reins = rein | away, fairly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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: «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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