Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 73
"I have rushed wildly across the savannahs; I have stroked the wild horses, and shaken the cocoa-nuts from the trees.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: rush, stroke, shake · To what, where: savannahs, wild horses, cocoa nuts, trees
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | aux |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 4 rushed | advmod |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 8 savannahs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 savannahs | det |
| 8 | savannahs | savannah | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rushed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stroked | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 stroked | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stroked | aux |
| 12 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 rushed | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horses | det |
| 14 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 horses | compound |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stroked | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shaken | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 shaken | cc |
| 18 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stroked | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nuts | det |
| 20 | cocoa | cocoa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 nuts | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 cocoa | punct |
| 22 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shaken | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 trees | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trees | det |
| 25 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shaken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush in a quote | present · perfect | the old woman = woman | the savannahs | wildly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across savannah=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stroke in a quote | present · perfect | the old woman = woman | the wild horses | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | shake in a quote | participle | the old woman = woman not said here | the cocoa nuts | the trees | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nut=Theme from tree=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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