Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 90
On goes the swing; and then a little black dog comes running up.
Who acts: little black dog · What happens: go, come, run up · To what, where: swing
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little black dog), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 goes | case |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 swing | det |
| 4 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goes | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 comes | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 comes | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dog | amod |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 comes | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 running | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the swing | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swing=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | a little black dog | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run up | gerund | a little black dog not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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