Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 206
The old high-road is lost amid cultivated fields; the new one now winds along over covered graves; and soon the railway will come, with its train of carriages, and rush over graves where lie those whose very names are forgoten.
Who acts: old high road, lost amid, new one, railway · What happens: lose, be, cultivate, wind, cover, come · To what, where: lost amid, fields, covered graves, graves, those, names
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 (old high road, lost amid, new one, railway), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 road | amod |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 road | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 high | punct |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 amid | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 amid | cop |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 amid | amod |
| 8 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 amid | acl |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cultivated | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 winds | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 winds | nsubj |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 winds | advmod |
| 16 | winds | wind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 amid | parataxis |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 16 winds | advmod |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 graves | case |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 graves | amod |
| 20 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 winds | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 come | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 railway | det |
| 25 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 winds | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 train | punct |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 train | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 train | nmod:poss |
| 31 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 carriages | case |
| 33 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 train | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rush | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rush | cc |
| 36 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 come | conj |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 38 graves | case |
| 38 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rush | obl |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 lie | advmod |
| 40 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 rush | advcl |
| 41 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 40 lie | obj |
| 42 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 44 names | nmod:poss |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 names | advmod |
| 44 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 forgoten | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 forgoten | aux:pass |
| 46 | forgoten | forgoten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 those | acl:relcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 amid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the old high road | lost amid | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cultivate | participle | lost amid not said here | fields | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Product | ||||
| 4 | wind | present | the new one | covered graves | now | along property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over grave=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | come | future | the railway | with grave's train of carriages; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | rush | infinitive | the railway not said here | graves | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over grave=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | lie | present | the railway not said here | those | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme | ||||
| 9 | forgoten | present · passive | names | 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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