Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 71
So they continued their journey across the rugged heath.
Who acts: travellers · What happens: continue, journey · To what, where: journey, rugged heath
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (travellers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 continued | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 continued | nsubj |
| 3 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nmod:poss |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 heath | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heath | det |
| 8 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heath | amod |
| 9 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 continued | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | travellers = traveller | travellers's journey | the rugged heath | tree rules | |||
| 2 | journey | travellers = traveller | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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