Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 26
And now all the people came streaming forth from the gates of the city, to see the witch burnt.
Who acts: people, witch · What happens: come, stream, see, burnt · To what, where: gates, witch
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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, witch), 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 | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 came | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 people | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 came | xcomp |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 streaming | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 gates | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gates | det |
| 11 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 streaming | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gates | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 see | punct |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 see | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | all people | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stream | gerund | all people not said here | the gates of the city | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from gate=Source | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | all people not said here | the witch | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | burnt | participle | the witch not said here | 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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