Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 48
"Up the hill, down the dale we wend, That is life, from beginning to end."
Who acts: we, That · What happens: wend, be, begin · To what, where: dale, life
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, That), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hill | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hill | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hill | det |
| 4 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dale | punct |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 dale | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dale | det |
| 8 | dale | dale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hill | appos |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 wend | nsubj |
| 10 | wend | wend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 dale | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 life | punct |
| 12 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 life | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 life | cop |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hill | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beginning | punct |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 beginning | mark |
| 17 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hill | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beginning | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hill | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wend in a quote | present | we | the dale not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location dale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | That | life | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | gerund | to end | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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