Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 72
Then they went into the garden through the great avenue, where the leaves were falling one after another, and they could see the light in the palace being put out in the same manner.
Who acts: guards, leaves · What happens: go, fall, see, put out · To what, where: garden, one, light, palace
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, leaves), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 avenue | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 avenue | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 avenue | amod |
| 10 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 falling | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 falling | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 leaves | det |
| 14 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 falling | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 falling | aux |
| 16 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 avenue | acl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 falling | obj |
| 18 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 another | case |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 light | det |
| 26 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 see | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 30 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 put | aux:pass |
| 31 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 see | parataxis |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 put | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 manner | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 manner | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 manner | amod |
| 36 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 put | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | guards = guard | the garden | then | through the great avenue | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location through avenue=Destination | ||
| 2 | fall | past · progressive | the leaves | one | after another | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result | |||
| 3 | see | could | guards = guard | the light | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | put out | gerund · passive | the palace | in the same manner | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in palace=Destination |
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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