Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 47
Strange merchants drive by her, and they look anxiously after their wagons laden with merchandise.
Who acts: Strange merchants, merchants · What happens: drive, look, lade · To what, where: wagons
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strange merchants, merchants), 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 | Strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 merchants | amod |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drive | nsubj |
| 3 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drive | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 look | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 drive | conj |
| 10 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 9 look | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 wagons | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wagons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 look | obl |
| 14 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wagons | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 merchandise | case |
| 16 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laden | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present | Strange merchants | by tongue | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | present | merchants = merchant | after merchants's wagons | anxiously property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lade | participle | merchants's wagons not said here | with merchandise | 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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