Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 109

A couple of golden rings with costly stones were turned into money; and then she turned to the east, and then she turned again and went towards the west.

Who acts: couple · What happens: turn, go · To what, where: couple, money, east, west

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 rings	case
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rings	amod
5	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 couple	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stones	case
7	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stones	amod
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rings	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	aux:pass
10	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 money	case
12	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 turned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 turned	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 turned	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turned	nsubj
17	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turned	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 east	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 east	det
20	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turned	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 turned	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 turned	nsubj
25	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	parataxis
26	again	again	ADV	_	25 turned	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 turned	conj
29	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 west	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 west	det
31	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	turn	past · passive		a couple of golden rings with costly stones	money		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into money=Trajectory
2	turn	past	couple		the east	then	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to east=Trajectory
3	turn	past	couple			then; again	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	couple not said here		the west		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards west=Initial_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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