Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 161
They walked along the high-road, where once they had driven in their splendid carriage; they went forth with their father as beggars.
Who acts: walls · What happens: walk, drive, go · To what, where: high road, splendid carriage
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 (walls), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 5 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 high | punct |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 driven | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 driven | advmod |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 13 driven | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 driven | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 driven | aux |
| 13 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 road | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 carriage | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 carriage | amod |
| 17 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 beggars | case |
| 26 | beggars | beggar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | walls = wall | the high road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · perfect | walls = wall | walls's splendid carriage | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go | past | walls = wall | with walls's father; as beggars; forth property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with father=Beneficiary |
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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