Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 88
She leaned upon a stick and carried on her back a bundle of firewood, which she had collected in the forest; her apron was tied round it, and John saw three great stems of fern and some willow twigs peeping out.
Who acts: woman, John, some, twigs · What happens: learn, carry, collect, tie, see, willow · To what, where: bundle, back, firewood, forest, apron, three great stems
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, John, some, twigs), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaned | nsubj |
| 2 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 stick | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stick | det |
| 5 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaned | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carried | cc |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaned | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bundle | det |
| 12 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 firewood | case |
| 14 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bundle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 collected | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 collected | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 collected | aux |
| 19 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 firewood | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 collected | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 tied | punct |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 apron | nmod:poss |
| 25 | apron | apron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tied | aux:pass |
| 27 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 carried | conj |
| 28 | round | round | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tied | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saw | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 saw | cc |
| 32 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 saw | nsubj |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaned | parataxis |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 stems | nummod |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 stems | amod |
| 36 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 saw | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 fern | case |
| 38 | fern | fern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stems | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 willow | cc |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 willow | nsubj |
| 41 | willow | willow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 saw | conj |
| 42 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 willow | obj |
| 43 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 twigs | acl |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 peeping | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | woman | upon a stick | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | woman not said here | a bundle of firewood | woman's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||
| 3 | collect | past · perfect · passive | firewood | the forest | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tie | past · passive | woman's apron | round forest | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | see | past | John | three great stems of fern | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stem=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | willow | present | some | twigs | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | peep out | gerund | twigs not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | stem | fern | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=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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