Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 11
She and Gerda seated themselves in the coach, and drove away, over stumps and stones, into the depths of the forest.
Who acts: woman · What happens: seat, drive away · To what, where: muff, coach, stumps
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | 4 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Gerda | cc |
| 3 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 She | conj |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 seated | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 coach | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coach | det |
| 8 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stumps | punct |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 stumps | case |
| 15 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drove | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stones | cc |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stumps | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 depths | punct |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 depths | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 depths | det |
| 21 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drove | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 depths | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | woman | muff | the coach | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Value in coach=Location | |||
| 2 | drive away | past | woman not said here | stumps and stones | into the depths of the forest; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over stump=Trajectory |
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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