Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 78
And he ran on day and night still faster and faster, but the loaves and the ham were all eaten by the time they reached Lapland.
Who acts: maiden, loaves · What happens: run, eat, reach · To what, where: loaves, Lapland
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 (maiden, loaves), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 night | cc |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 day | conj |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 faster | advmod |
| 9 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 ran | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 faster | cc |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 faster | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eaten | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 eaten | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 loaves | det |
| 15 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ham | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ham | det |
| 18 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loaves | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 eaten | aux:pass |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 eaten | advmod |
| 21 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eaten | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reached | nsubj |
| 26 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 time | acl:relcl |
| 27 | Lapland | Lapland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 reached | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | maiden | day | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | past · passive | the loaves and the ham | time | all property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | reach | past | loaves = loaf | Lapland | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lapland=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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