Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 37
Both the reindeer ran by their side, and followed them as far as the boundaries of the country, where the first green leaves were budding.
Who acts: reindeer, first green leaves · What happens: run, follow, bud · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reindeer, first green 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reindeer | det |
| 3 | reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 side | nmod:poss |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 followed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 followed | cc |
| 10 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 followed | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 followed | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 boundaries | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 boundaries | det |
| 16 | boundaries | boundary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 far | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 country | det |
| 19 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 boundaries | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 budding | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 budding | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 leaves | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 leaves | amod |
| 24 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 leaves | amod |
| 25 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 budding | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 budding | aux |
| 27 | budding | bud | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 country | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the reindeer | by words's side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the reindeer not said here | words = word | far property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | bud | past · progressive | the first green leaves | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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