Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 11
She seldom came down to the tree now, for she took the air in a carriage.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: come down, take · To what, where: tree, air, carriage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 took | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 air | det |
| 14 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 carriage | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 carriage | det |
| 17 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | daughter | the tree | now | down, seldom property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | take | past | daughter | the air | a carriage | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent air=Value in carriage=Location |
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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