Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 98
But in the lanes and the highways, passengers on foot or in carriages were hurrying to find a place of shelter.
Who acts: passengers · What happens: hurry, find · To what, where: lanes, place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passengers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 hurrying | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 lanes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lanes | det |
| 4 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurrying | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 highways | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 highways | det |
| 7 | highways | highway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lanes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lanes | punct |
| 9 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hurrying | nsubj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passengers | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 carriages | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 carriages | case |
| 14 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 passengers | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hurrying | aux |
| 16 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hurrying | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 shelter | case |
| 22 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 place | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hurrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past · progressive | passengers on foot or carriages | the lanes and the highways | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lane=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | passengers on foot or carriages not said here | a place of shelter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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