Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 159
"The eldest and youngest, hand-in-hand, Went forth alone to a distant land."
Who acts: hand hand · What happens: go · To what, where: distant land
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand hand), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youngest | det |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 youngest | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 youngest | cc |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hand | punct |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hand | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Went | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hand | punct |
| 13 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 youngest | acl:relcl |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 Went | advmod |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 Went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 land | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 land | det |
| 18 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 land | amod |
| 19 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | hand hand | a distant land | alone, forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_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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