Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 60
Late one evening in November two women came riding into the town of Aarhuus.
Who acts: two women · What happens: come, ride · To what, where: town
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 (two women), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 November | case |
| 5 | November | November | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | nmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 women | nummod |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 riding | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Aarhuus | case |
| 14 | Aarhuus | Aarhuus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 town | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two women | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | two women not said here | the town of Aarhuus | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory |
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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