Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 64
They sailed through the streets, round by the church, and on every side rolled the wide, great sea.
Who acts: clothes · What happens: sail, roll · To what, where: streets, wide great sea, side
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 streets | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 streets | det |
| 5 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sailed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 church | punct |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 church | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sailed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rolled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rolled | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolled | obl |
| 16 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sailed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sea | det |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sea | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wide | punct |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sea | amod |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolled | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | clothes | the streets | by the church | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through street=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | roll | past | clothes not said here | the wide great sea | every side | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sea=Theme on side=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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