Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 13

In summer they could be together with one jump from the window, but in winter they had to go up and down the long staircase, and out through the snow before they could meet.

Who acts: names · What happens: be, have, go up, meet · To what, where: window

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (names), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 summer	case
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jump	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 jump	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 jump	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 jump	cop
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 be	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 jump	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 jump	nummod
9	jump	jump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jump	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 jump	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 go	mark
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	up	up	ADV	_	20 go	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 staircase	cc
23	down	down	ADP	_	26 staircase	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 staircase	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 staircase	amod
26	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 up	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 out	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 out	cc
29	out	out	ADV	_	18 had	advmod
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 snow	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 snow	det
32	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 out	obl
33	before	before	SCONJ	_	36 meet	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 meet	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 meet	aux
36	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 out	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 jump	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	names = name	the window	summer	with one jump	tree rules
2	have	past	names = name		winter	out property	tree rules
3	go up	to-infinitive	names = name not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	meet	could	names = name				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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