Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Saucy Boy, sentence 43
He walks about in the castle garden and on the promenades.
Who acts: boy · What happens: walk · To what, where: castle garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Saucy Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 walks | nsubj |
| 2 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 walks | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 garden | compound |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promenades | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 promenades | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 promenades | det |
| 11 | promenades | promenade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 garden | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | boy | the castle garden and the promenades | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory |
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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