Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 42
She sailed to France, and Knud wandered about the muddy streets of Copenhagen.
Who acts: child, Knud · What happens: sail, wander · To what, where: France
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (child, Knud), 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 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 France | case |
| 4 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sailed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wandered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wandered | cc |
| 7 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wandered | nsubj |
| 8 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sailed | conj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 streets | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 streets | det |
| 11 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 streets | amod |
| 12 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wandered | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Copenhagen | case |
| 14 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 streets | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | child | France | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to france=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | wander | past | Knud | about the muddy streets of Copenhagen | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about street=Trajectory |
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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