Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 28
Suddenly two horses came galloping up to be watered.
Who acts: two horses · What happens: come, gallop up, water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two horses), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 horses | nummod |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | galloping | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 galloping | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 watered | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 watered | aux:pass |
| 9 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 galloping | advcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two horses | suddenly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gallop up | gerund | two horses not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | water | to-infinitive · passive | two horses not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |
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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