Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 14

He said he could easily follow the track of the closely-moving carriages, for which a path must be kept clear, and with nothing but his knapsack on his back, and leaning on his stick, he could step along briskly.

Who acts: snow · What happens: say, follow, move, keep, lean, step · To what, where: track, path, stick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 follow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 follow	aux
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 follow	advmod
6	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 track	det
8	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 follow	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 carriages	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 carriages	det
11	closely	closely	ADV	_	13 moving	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 closely	punct
13	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 carriages	amod
14	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 track	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kept	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 kept	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 path	det
19	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kept	nsubj:pass
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 kept	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 kept	aux:pass
22	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 follow	advcl
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 kept	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 step	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 step	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 nothing	case
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	43 step	obl
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 knapsack	cc
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 knapsack	nmod:poss
30	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 back	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knapsack	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 leaning	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 leaning	cc
36	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 nothing	acl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 stick	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 stick	nmod:poss
39	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leaning	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 nothing	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 step	nsubj
42	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 step	aux
43	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
44	along	along	ADV	_	43 step	advmod
45	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 step	xcomp
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	snow				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	follow	could	snow	the track of the moving carriages		easily property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme
3	move	gerund				closely property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	must · passive		a path		clear property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	lean	gerund			snow's stick		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location
6	step	could	snow			with nothing; along, briskly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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