Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 75
They ride the shortest way, through the waving reeds, where the wind moans sadly.
Who acts: horse, waving, wind · What happens: ride, reed, moan · To what, where: shortest way
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 (horse, waving, wind), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ride | nsubj |
| 2 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | shortest | short | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ride | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reeds | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 reeds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waving | det |
| 9 | waving | waving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reeds | nsubj |
| 10 | reeds | reed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ride | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 moans | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 moans | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wind | det |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 moans | nsubj |
| 15 | moans | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reeds | conj |
| 16 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 15 moans | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present | horse | the shortest way | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reed | present | the waving | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | moan | present | the wind | sadly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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