Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 86

I went out with the Hottentots, who were lion-hunting in the Kaffir land, where the plains are covered with grass the color of a green olive; and here I ran races with the ostrich, but I soon outstripped him in swiftness.

Who acts: I, Hottentots · What happens: go out, be, cover, run, outstrip · To what, where: lion hunting, Kaffir land, plains, races, hunting

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 (I, Hottentots), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 Hottentots	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hottentots	det
6	Hottentots	Hottentot	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hunting	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hunting	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 hunting	cop
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hunting	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 lion	punct
12	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Hottentots	appos
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 land	det
15	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 land	compound
16	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hunting	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 covered	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 covered	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plains	det
20	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 covered	nsubj:pass
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 covered	aux:pass
22	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hunting	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 grass	case
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 color	det
26	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 olive	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 olive	det
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 olive	amod
30	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 color	nmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 ran	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 ran	cc
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 ran	advmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 ran	nsubj
35	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
36	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 ran	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 ostrich	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 ostrich	det
39	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ran	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 outstripped	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 outstripped	cc
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 outstripped	nsubj
43	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 outstripped	advmod
44	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 outstripped	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 swiftness	case
47	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 outstripped	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go out	past	I			with the Hottentots; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hottentot=Co-Agent
2	is a	past	the Hottentots	lion hunting	the Kaffir land		tree rules
3	cover	present · passive		the plains		with grass	tree rules
4	run	past	I	races	here	with the ostrich	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Product with ostrich=Material
5	outstrip	past	I	hunting		in swiftness; soon property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot he=Theme in swiftness=Attribute

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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