Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 31
They turned their steps to the church, and Knud and Joanna followed them, also walking hand-in-hand; there stood the church, as of old, with its red walls, on which the green ivy grew.
Who acts: tree, Knud, green ivy · What happens: turn, follow, walk, stand, grow, step · To what, where: steps, church, tree, 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, Knud, green ivy), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 steps | nmod:poss |
| 4 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turned | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 church | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 10 | Knud | Knud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Joanna | cc |
| 12 | Joanna | Joanna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Knud | conj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 walking | punct |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 walking | advmod |
| 17 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 followed | advcl |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hand | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 hand | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 in | punct |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 walking | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stood | advmod |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 church | det |
| 27 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 old | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 31 old | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 as | fixed |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stood | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 walls | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 walls | case |
| 34 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 walls | nmod:poss |
| 35 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 walls | amod |
| 36 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 stood | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 grew | punct |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 grew | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 ivy | det |
| 41 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 ivy | amod |
| 42 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 grew | nsubj |
| 43 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stood | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | tree | tree's steps | the church | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme to church=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | follow | past | Knud and Joanna | tree | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | Knud and Joanna not said here | hand hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hand=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | tree not said here | the church | there | with hand's red walls | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer church=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | grow | past | the green ivy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location | |||||
| 6 | step | tree | 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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