Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 251

We saw her ride, as child, over the bridge, looking proudly around her, as if the whole world belonged to her, and all the birds' nests in it; and we saw her on the heath, by the sand-dunes; and, last of all, in the ferry-house.

Who acts: We, whole world, family · What happens: see, look, belong, ride · To what, where: ride, bridge, nests, family, heath

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 (We, whole world, family), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ride	nmod:poss
4	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 child	case
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ride	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bridge	punct
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 bridge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bridge	det
11	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	advcl
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	13 looking	advmod
15	around	around	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looking	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 belonged	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 belonged	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 belonged	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 world	amod
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 belonged	nsubj
23	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 belonged	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 nests	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 nests	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 birds	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 birds	det
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 nests	nmod:poss
31	'	's	PART	_	30 birds	case
32	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 belonged	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 nests	nmod
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 saw	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 saw	cc
37	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 saw	nsubj
38	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	parataxis
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 saw	obj
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 heath	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 heath	det
42	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saw	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dunes	punct
44	by	by	ADP	_	48 dunes	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 dunes	det
46	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 dunes	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 sand	punct
48	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 saw	obl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 all	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 all	cc
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 all	punct
52	last	last	ADV	_	54 all	advmod
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 all	case
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 saw	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 all	punct
56	in	in	ADP	_	60 house	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 house	det
58	ferry	ferry	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 house	compound
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 ferry	punct
60	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 all	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	We	family's ride and child		the bridge		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ride=Stimulus
2	look	gerund	We not said here				around family; proudly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around she=Theme
3	belong a condition, not said to happen	past	the whole world	all birds's nests	family	bridge		tree rules
4	see	past	we	family		the heath	by the sand dunes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	ride		family					nom ride «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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