Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 16
Her husband preferred riding out to shoot wolves and boars; and his little daughter Marie always went with him part of the way.
Who acts: husband, little daughter · What happens: prefer, ride out, shoot, go · To what, where: wolves, part
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 (husband, little 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 preferred | nsubj |
| 3 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 preferred | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 riding | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shoot | mark |
| 7 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 riding | advcl |
| 8 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shoot | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 boars | cc |
| 10 | boars | boar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wolves | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 16 | Marie | Marie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | appos |
| 17 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 went | advmod |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 preferred | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 way | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 way | det |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 preferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prefer | past | Grubbe's husband | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ride out not said to happen | gerund | Grubbe's husband not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shoot | to-infinitive | Grubbe's husband not said here | wolves and boars | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | husband's little daughter | part of the way | with husband; always property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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