Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 19
The women carried hymn books, and walked into the church.
Who acts: women · What happens: carry, walk · To what, where: hymn books, church
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 books | compound |
| 5 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 walked | cc |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the women | hymn books | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | the women not said here | into the church result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into church=Result |
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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