Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 49
A footpath which led across the fields passed close by the old tree.
Who acts: footpath · What happens: lead, pass · To what, where: fields
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footpath), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 footpath | det |
| 2 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 led | obl |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fields | acl |
| 9 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 passed | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | a footpath | the fields | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent across field=Destination | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | the fields not said here | by the old tree; close property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tree=Location |
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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