Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 50

The cattle walked on the path and by the palings, and at the turnpike-gate they even walked into the toll-keeper's potato-field, where one fowl was strutting about with a string tied to its leg, for fear it should take fright at the crowd, and run away and get lost.

Who acts: cattle, one fowl, it · What happens: walk, strut, tie, take, run away, get · To what, where: path, turnpike gate, string, fright, crowd

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 (cattle, one fowl, it), 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 cattle	det
2	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 palings	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 palings	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palings	det
10	palings	paling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 path	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 walked	cc
13	at	at	ADP	_	17 gate	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gate	det
15	turnpike	turnpike	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gate	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 turnpike	punct
17	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walked	nsubj
19	even	even	ADV	_	20 walked	advmod
20	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
21	into	into	ADP	_	29 field	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 keeper	det
23	toll	toll	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keeper	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 toll	punct
25	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 field	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 keeper	case
27	potato	potato	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 field	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 potato	punct
29	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 walked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 strutting	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 strutting	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 fowl	nummod
33	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 strutting	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 strutting	aux
35	strutting	strut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 field	conj
36	about	about	ADV	_	35 strutting	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 string	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 string	det
39	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 strutting	obl
40	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 string	acl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 leg	case
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 leg	nmod:poss
43	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tied	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 take	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	46 fear	case
46	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 take	obl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 take	nsubj
48	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 take	aux
49	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 walked	advcl
50	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 take	obj
51	at	at	ADP	_	53 crowd	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 crowd	det
53	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 take	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 run	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 run	cc
56	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	49 take	parataxis
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 run	advmod
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 get	cc
59	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	56 run	conj
60	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 get	xcomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the cattle		the path and the palings		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Trajectory
2	walk	past	cattle		the turnpike gate	into the toll keeper's potato field result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into field=Result
3	strut	past · progressive	one fowl			with a string; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tie	participle		a string not said here		to fowl's leg	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leg=Co-Patient
5	take	should	it	fright	the crowd	for fear	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent fright=Theme for fear=Beneficiary
6	run away	infinitive				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	get	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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