Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 135
The two friends walked on, and thus she escaped the fate of being bottled up in spirits.
Who acts: two friends, Aesop · What happens: walk on, escape, bottle up · To what, where: fate, spirits
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two friends, Aesop), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 friends | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 friends | nummod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 escaped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 escaped | cc |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 escaped | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 escaped | nsubj |
| 10 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fate | det |
| 12 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 escaped | obj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 bottled | mark |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 bottled | aux:pass |
| 15 | bottled | bottle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fate | acl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 bottled | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 spirits | case |
| 18 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bottled | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | the two friends | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | escape | past | Aesop | the fate | thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fate=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bottle up | gerund · passive | the fate not said here | spirits | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in spirit=Destination |
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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