Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 92

So he travelled onwards, over a grand, lofty chain of mountains, over rugged,--rocky precipices, and along roads that hung on the mountain's side like a swallow's nest.

Who acts: Knud, roads · What happens: travel, hang · To what, where: grand lofty chain, side

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 (Knud, roads), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 travelled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 travelled	nsubj
3	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	onwards	onwards	ADV	_	3 travelled	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chain	punct
6	over	over	ADP	_	11 chain	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chain	det
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chain	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grand	punct
10	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 chain	amod
11	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travelled	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 mountains	case
13	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 chain	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rugged	punct
15	over	over	ADV	_	16 rugged	advmod
16	rugged	rugged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 travelled	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 precipices	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 precipices	punct
19	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 precipices	amod
20	precipices	precipice	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rugged	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 roads	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 roads	cc
23	along	along	ADP	_	24 roads	case
24	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travelled	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hung	nsubj
26	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 roads	acl:relcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	31 side	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountain	det
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 side	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 mountain	case
31	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	obl
32	like	like	ADP	_	36 nest	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 swallow	det
34	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nest	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 swallow	case
36	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hung	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Knud			a grand lofty chain of mountains		along roads; onwards property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over chain=Trajectory
2	hang	past	roads			the mountain's side		like a swallow's nest	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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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