Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 38
The young people wandered away into the green wood, and talked together.
Who acts: young people · What happens: wander away, talk · To what, where: green wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young people), 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 | 3 people | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 wandered | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 talked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 talked | cc |
| 12 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandered | conj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 talked | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander away | past | the young people | the green wood | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination | |||
| 2 | talk | past | the young people not said here | together property | vn talk-37.5 «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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