Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 70
They were both silent, but he took her hand, and they walked together across the purple heath, over moor and meadow towards the sandhills.
Who acts: churches, One · What happens: be, take, walk · To what, where: hand, purple heath
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (churches, One), 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 | 4 silent | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 silent | advmod |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 silent | parataxis |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walked | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 walked | nsubj |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 walked | advmod |
| 16 | across | across | ADP | _ | 19 heath | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heath | det |
| 18 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heath | amod |
| 19 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 moor | punct |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 moor | case |
| 22 | moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 meadow | cc |
| 24 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 moor | conj |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 sandhills | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sandhills | det |
| 27 | sandhills | sandhill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 walked | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 silent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | churches = church | both, silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | One | grass's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | churches = church | the purple heath | over moor and meadow; towards the sandhills; together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent across heath=Initial_Location over moor=Trajectory towards sandhill=Destination |
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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