Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 12
There were people walking, carriages driving, and mules trotting along, with their bells on the harness, "tingle, tingle," as they went.
Who acts: people, mules · What happens: be, walk, drive, trot, go · To what, where: carriages
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, mules), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 people | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 carriages | punct |
| 6 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walking | obl |
| 7 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walking | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trotting | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trotting | cc |
| 10 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trotting | nsubj |
| 11 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 were | advcl |
| 12 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 trotting | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bells | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bells | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bells | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trotting | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 harness | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 harness | det |
| 19 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bells | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tingle | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 tingle | punct |
| 22 | tingle | tingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bells | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tingle | punct |
| 24 | tingle | tingle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tingle | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bells | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bells | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 went | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 trotting | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | people not said here | carriages | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | people not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | trot | gerund | mules | with people's bells on the harness and tingle and tingle; along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | people | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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