Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 80
They flew through rich halls and wretched hovels; wantonness and envy, all the deadly sins, passed before them.
Who acts: hands · What happens: fly, pass · To what, where: rich halls, wantonness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 halls | case |
| 4 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 halls | amod |
| 5 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flew | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hovels | cc |
| 7 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hovels | amod |
| 8 | hovels | hovel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 halls | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 wantonness | punct |
| 10 | wantonness | wantonness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 envy | cc |
| 12 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wantonness | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sins | punct |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 sins | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sins | det |
| 16 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sins | amod |
| 17 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wantonness | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passed | punct |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wantonness | acl |
| 20 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 passed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | hands = hand | rich halls and wretched hovels | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | participle | wantonness and envy and all deadly sins not said here | before hands = hand | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location |
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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