Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 70

Then she led Eliza a little distance farther to a sloping bank, and at the foot of it wound a little river.

Who acts: woman · What happens: lead, slope, woun · To what, where: Eliza, little river, foot

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 led	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distance	amod
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obj
8	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 distance	amod
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 bank	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bank	det
11	sloping	slope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bank	amod
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 farther	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wound	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wound	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 foot	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foot	det
17	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wound	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 foot	nmod
20	wound	woun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 river	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 river	amod
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wound	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lead	past	woman	Eliza		then	tree rules
2	slope	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	woun	past	woman not said here	a little river	the foot of bank		tree rules

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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