Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 58
They went along by the paling, and the young wife looked across it.
Who acts: flowers, young wife · What happens: go along, look
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 (flowers, young wife), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 paling | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 paling | det |
| 6 | paling | paling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wife | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wife | amod |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | flowers = flower | by the paling; along property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by paling=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the young wife | across garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across it=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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