Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 14
His fellow-traveller stood by with folded hands, gazing on the dark wood and the towns bathed in the warm sunshine.
Who acts: fellow traveller · What happens: stand, fold, gaze, bath · To what, where: towns, warm sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow traveller), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 traveller | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 traveller | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 fellow | punct |
| 4 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hands | amod |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gazing | punct |
| 11 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wood | amod |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gazing | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 towns | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 towns | det |
| 18 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wood | conj |
| 19 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 towns | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sunshine | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sunshine | det |
| 22 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sunshine | amod |
| 23 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bathed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | sun's fellow traveller | by folded hands | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | fold | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | gaze | gerund | sun's fellow traveller not said here | on the dark wood and the towns | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on wood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bath | participle | the towns not said here | the warm sunshine | tree rules |
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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