Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 32
Leading the animal, he strode on sturdily, and, after a short time, overtook a man who was driving a sheep.
Who acts: animal, man · What happens: lead, stride, overtake, drive · To what, where: animal, man, sheep
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 (animal, 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 | Leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 strode | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leading | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leading | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 strode | nsubj |
| 6 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 sturdily | case |
| 8 | sturdily | sturdily | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 strode | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overtook | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 overtook | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overtook | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 17 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strode | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overtook | obj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 driving | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driving | aux |
| 22 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sheep | det |
| 24 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driving | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | animal not said here | the animal | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stride | past | animal | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sturdily=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | overtake | past | animal not said here | a man | time | tree rules | |||
| 4 | drive | past · progressive | a man | a sheep | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
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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