Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 68
They walked along the road which passed by the old willow tree, and while they were on the road she picked a bunch of field-flowers. "
Who acts: sons, road, tree · What happens: walk, pass, be, pick · To what, where: road, bunch
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 (sons, road, tree), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 road | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 11 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 picked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 picked | cc |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 road | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 road | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 road | cop |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 picked | advcl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 picked | nsubj |
| 22 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bunch | det |
| 24 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 picked | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 flowers | case |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 flowers | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 field | punct |
| 28 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bunch | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | sons = son | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | the road | by the old willow tree | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | sons = son | the road | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pick | past | tree | a bunch of field flowers | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Patient |
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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