Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 27
She passed through the garden, to a path across a field that led to the churchyard.
Who acts: word, field · What happens: pass, lead · To what, where: garden
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, field), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 path | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 path | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 path | det |
| 9 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | conj |
| 10 | across | across | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 path | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 led | nsubj |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 field | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 churchyard | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 churchyard | det |
| 17 | churchyard | churchyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | word | the garden | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through garden=Location | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | a field | to the churchyard | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to churchyard=Patient |
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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