Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 4

"She never went out, except across the street to an old female friend; and in later years she did not even take this walk, for the old friend was dead.

Who acts: Moon, old friend · What happens: not go out, not take, be · To what, where: walk

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 (Moon, old friend), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 went	advmod
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 street	punct
7	except	except	ADP	_	10 street	case
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 street	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 street	det
10	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 friend	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 friend	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 friend	amod
14	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 friend	amod
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 street	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 years	case
19	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 years	amod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 take	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 take	advmod
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 take	advmod
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	conj
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 walk	det
27	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dead	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	34 dead	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 friend	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friend	amod
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dead	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 dead	cop
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 take	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not go out in a quote	past	Moon			except the street to a old female friend	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not take in a quote	past · do-support	Moon	this walk	year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent walk=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	the old friend			dead 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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