Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 15
So he turned his steps to the mountains, ascended one side and descended the other, still going northward till his strength began to fail, and not a house or village could be seen.
Who acts: snow, strength · What happens: turn, ascend, descend, go, begin, fail · To what, where: steps, mountains, other, house
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, strength), 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 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 side | punct |
| 10 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 side | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 side | nummod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 descended | cc |
| 14 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 descended | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 descended | advcl |
| 20 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 21 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 began | mark |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 strength | nmod:poss |
| 23 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | nsubj |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 fail | mark |
| 26 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seen | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 seen | cc |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 house | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 village | cc |
| 33 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 house | conj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 seen | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 seen | aux:pass |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 turned | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | snow | snow's steps | the mountains and ascended one side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to mountain=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | ascend | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | descend | past | snow not said here | the other | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location other=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | snow not said here | still | northward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | begin | past | snow's strength | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | fail | to-infinitive | snow's strength not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | see | could · passive | a house or village | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | step | snow | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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