Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 89
And then he galloped away over the mountains, holding her before him on this horse, and the hunters followed behind them.
Who acts: king, hunters · What happens: gallop away, hold, follow · To what, where: mountains, head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, hunters), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 galloped | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 galloped | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 galloped | nsubj |
| 4 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 galloped | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 galloped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 holding | punct |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 galloped | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 holding | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 holding | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 horse | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holding | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 followed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 followed | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hunters | det |
| 20 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 followed | nsubj |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 galloped | conj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 followed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop away | past | king | the mountains | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | hold | gerund | king not said here | head | before king | on this horse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent her=Theme before he=Location | ||
| 3 | follow | past | the hunters | behind hands = hand | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind they=Location |
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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