Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 4
In the street the people crowded round her carriage, and drew it away themselves without the horses.
Who acts: people · What happens: crowd, draw away · To what, where: street, carriage
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 (people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 street | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 street | det |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crowded | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crowded | nsubj |
| 6 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crowded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crowded | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drew | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 15 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 drew | obl |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 horses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horses | det |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drew | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | past | the people | the street | round audience's carriage | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in street=Destination | |||
| 2 | draw away | past | the people not said here | carriage | without the horses; people obl; away property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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