Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 4
And over the street pavement, the paving stones, those fragments of the oldest remains of antiquity, one walks without ever thinking about them.
Who acts: one · What happens: walk, think
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 pavement | cc |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 pavement | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pavement | det |
| 4 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pavement | compound |
| 5 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stones | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stones | det |
| 8 | paving | paving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stones | compound |
| 9 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pavement | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fragments | punct |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 fragments | det |
| 12 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pavement | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 remains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 remains | det |
| 15 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 remains | amod |
| 16 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 fragments | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 antiquity | case |
| 18 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remains | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 walks | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 walks | nsubj |
| 21 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pavement | conj |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 thinking | mark |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 thinking | advmod |
| 24 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 walks | advcl |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 thinking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pavement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | one not said here | ever | about books = book | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about they=Topic |
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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