Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 30
Then they walked away, hand-in-hand, through the streets of Kjoge, looking very respectable on the best side, which they were quite right to show.
Who acts: tree, best side · What happens: walk away, look, be, show · To what, where: hand hand
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 (tree, best side), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 streets | punct |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 streets | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 streets | det |
| 14 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kjoge | case |
| 16 | Kjoge | Kjoge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 streets | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 respectable | advmod |
| 20 | respectable | respectable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 side | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 side | amod |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 respectable | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 right | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 right | nsubj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 right | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 right | cop |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 right | advmod |
| 30 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 side | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 show | mark |
| 32 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 right | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk away | past | tree | hand hand | then | through the streets of Kjoge; away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | look | gerund | tree not said here | respectable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the best side | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | show | to-infinitive | the best side not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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