Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 20

The old sober maiden, who had for years and years moved quietly round and round in a dull circle, was now, in death, rattled over stock and stone on the public highway.

Who acts: years, old sober maiden · What happens: have, move, be, rattle · To what, where: dull circle, death, stock

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 (years, old sober maiden), 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	4 maiden	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maiden	amod
3	sober	sober	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 maiden	amod
4	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 death	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 maiden	parataxis
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 years	case
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 moved	cc
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 moved	nsubj
12	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	14 round	advmod
14	round	round	ADV	_	12 moved	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 round	cc
16	round	round	ADV	_	14 round	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 circle	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 circle	det
19	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 circle	amod
20	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moved	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 maiden	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 death	cop
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 death	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 death	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 death	case
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rattled	punct
28	rattled	rattle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 death	acl
29	over	over	ADP	_	30 stock	case
30	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rattled	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stone	cc
32	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stock	conj
33	on	on	ADP	_	36 highway	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 highway	det
35	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 highway	amod
36	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rattled	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 death	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past				year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	move	past	years		a dull circle		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory
3	is	past	the old sober maiden		death	now		tree rules
4	rattle	participle		death not said here	stock and stone		on the public highway	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over stock=Location

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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