Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 145

The student turned his steps towards the canal at the castle bridge, where a couple of small ships were lying; one of these was weighing anchor, to get away from the plague-stricken city.

Who acts: student, couple, one, person · What happens: turn, lie, weigh, get away, step · To what, where: steps, castle bridge, anchor, stricken city

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 (student, couple, one, person), 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	2 student	det
2	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 steps	nmod:poss
5	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turned	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 canal	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 canal	det
8	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 bridge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridge	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bridge	compound
12	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lying	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 lying	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 couple	det
16	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lying	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 ships	case
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ships	amod
19	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 couple	nmod
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lying	aux
21	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bridge	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 weighing	punct
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 weighing	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 these	case
25	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 one	nmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 weighing	aux
27	weighing	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 turned	advcl
28	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 weighing	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 get	mark
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 weighing	conj
32	away	away	ADV	_	31 get	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	38 city	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 city	det
35	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stricken	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 plague	punct
37	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 city	amod
38	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the student	person's steps	the castle bridge	towards the canal	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme towards canal=Source at bridge=Trajectory
2	lie	past · progressive	a couple of small ships				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weigh	past · progressive	one of these	anchor			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anchor=Value
4	get away	to-infinitive	one of these not said here		the stricken city	away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from city=Source
5	step		person				nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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