Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 40
Soon after this, he overtook another man, who had come into the road from a field, and was carrying a large goose under his arm.
Who acts: peasant, man · What happens: overtake, come, carry · To what, where: man, road, large goose, arm
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, 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 overtook | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 overtook | nsubj |
| 6 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 overtook | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 field | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 field | det |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 road | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carrying | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carrying | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 carrying | aux |
| 22 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 overtook | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 goose | det |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 goose | amod |
| 25 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carrying | obj |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 arm | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 arm | nmod:poss |
| 28 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carrying | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | peasant | another man | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | another man | the road from a field | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into road=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | past · progressive | peasant not said here | a large goose | peasant's arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=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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