Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 21
The road was very dusty; for a number of people, all going to the fair, were driving, riding, or walking upon it.
Who acts: road, people · What happens: be, go, drive, walk · To what, where: fair, riding, road
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (road, 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 | 2 road | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dusty | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dusty | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 dusty | advmod |
| 5 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 driving | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 number | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 number | det |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 driving | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 number | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 going | advmod |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 people | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 fair | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fair | det |
| 17 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 number | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 driving | aux |
| 20 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dusty | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 riding | punct |
| 22 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 driving | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walking | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 walking | cc |
| 25 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 driving | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walking | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dusty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the road | dusty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | people not said here | the fair | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | drive | past · progressive | the road not said here | riding | for a number of people | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme riding=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | walk | gerund | the road not said here | road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory |
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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