Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 39
And then our peasant continued his way on the high-road with his sheep.
Who acts: peasant · What happens: continue · To what, where: way, high 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 (peasant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 continued | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 continued | advmod |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 peasant | nmod:poss |
| 4 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 way | nmod:poss |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 road | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 high | punct |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sheep | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 continued | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | our peasant | peasant's way | the high road | then | with peasant's sheep | tree rules |
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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