Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 47

The old pair shall again wander through the streets arm-in-arm, or sit with their fresh, healthy cheeks on the bench under the lime-tree, and smile and nod at rich and poor.

Who acts: old pair · What happens: wander, sit, smile, nod · To what, where: arm, rich

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old pair), 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 pair	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pair	amod
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wander	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wander	aux
5	again	again	ADV	_	6 wander	advmod
6	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	14 arm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 streets	det
9	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 arm	nsubj
10	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arm	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 arm	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 arm	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wander	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sit	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 sit	cc
17	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wander	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	23 cheeks	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cheeks	nmod:poss
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cheeks	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fresh	punct
22	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cheeks	amod
23	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sit	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 bench	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bench	det
26	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cheeks	nmod
27	under	under	ADP	_	31 tree	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tree	det
29	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tree	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 lime	punct
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bench	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 smile	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 smile	cc
34	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sit	conj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 nod	cc
36	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 smile	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 rich	case
38	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nod	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 poor	cc
40	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 rich	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wander	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	shall	the old pair	arm	again		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through arm=Trajectory
2	sit	infinitive	the old pair not said here			with generations's fresh healthy cheeks on the bench under the lime tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	smile	infinitive	the old pair not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	nod	infinitive	the old pair not said here	rich			vn wink-40.3.1 «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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