Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 23
Among the rest a man came trudging along, and driving a cow to the fair.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, trudge, drive · To what, where: cow, fair
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 (man), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 rest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rest | det |
| 3 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | trudging | trudge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 came | xcomp |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 trudging | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 driving | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 driving | cc |
| 11 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 trudging | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cow | det |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driving | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 fair | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fair | det |
| 16 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 driving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a man | among the rest | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trudge | gerund | a man not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | a man not said here | a cow | the fair | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme to fair=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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