Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 123

The sweet children rode on their hobby-horses through all the rooms when they came to see the grandparents.

Who acts: sweet children, tragedy · What happens: rode, come, see · To what, where: rooms, grandparents

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet children, tragedy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	rode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 horses	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 horses	nmod:poss
7	hobby	hobby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 horses	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hobby	punct
9	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	obl
10	through	through	ADP	_	13 rooms	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 rooms	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rooms	det
13	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	obl
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grandparents	det
20	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 see	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rode	present	the sweet children		all rooms	on tragedy's hobby horses	tree rules
2	come	past	tragedy				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	to-infinitive	tragedy not said here	the grandparents			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grandparent=Stimulus

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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