Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 3
As he walked on, he met a very frightful-looking old witch in the road.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: walk on, meet, look · To what, where: looking old witch, road
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 witch | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 frightful | advmod |
| 10 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looking | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 frightful | punct |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 witch | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 witch | amod |
| 14 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 witch | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | soldier | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | soldier | a looking old witch | the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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