Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 11
He looked back and saw a couple of horsemen galloping a long distance behind him, and there were other people with them.
Who acts: sun, horsemen, other people · What happens: look back, see, gallop, be · To what, where: couple, long distance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, horsemen, other 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 horsemen | case |
| 9 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 couple | nmod |
| 10 | galloping | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 horsemen | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distance | amod |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 galloping | obj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 galloping | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 were | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 were | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 were | expl |
| 19 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 were | nsubj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 people | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | sun | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | sun not said here | a couple of horsemen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer couple=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gallop | gerund | horsemen not said here | a long distance | behind sun | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent distance=Theme behind he=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | be | past | other people with horsemen | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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