Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 136
With songs and with sounding guitars the young people returned that evening from the tavern, through the narrow streets; the two glowing carnations, daughters of the Campagna, went with them.
Who acts: young people · What happens: sound, return, glow, go · To what, where: two glowing carnations, tavern
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young people), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 songs | case |
| 2 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returned | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 guitars | cc |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 guitars | case |
| 5 | sounding | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 guitars | amod |
| 6 | guitars | guitar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 songs | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 evening | det |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 tavern | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tavern | det |
| 15 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 streets | punct |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 streets | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 streets | det |
| 19 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 streets | amod |
| 20 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returned | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 carnations | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 carnations | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 carnations | nummod |
| 24 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 carnations | amod |
| 25 | carnations | carnation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 returned | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 daughters | punct |
| 27 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 carnations | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Campagna | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Campagna | det |
| 30 | Campagna | Campagna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 daughters | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 went | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | return | past | the young people | the two glowing carnations and daughters of the Campagna | the tavern | evening | with songs and sounding guitars; through the narrow streets | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from tavern=Initial_Location through street=Destination | |
| 3 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | past | the young people not said here | with people | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=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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