Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 13
Then they pulled the horses out of the stable and rode off in rain and wind to obtain the assistance of friends.
Who acts: logs · What happens: pull, ride off, obtain, assist · To what, where: horses, stable, rain, assistance, friends
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (logs), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horses | det |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pulled | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 stable | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stable | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stable | det |
| 9 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rode | cc |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 rode | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rain | case |
| 14 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wind | cc |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rain | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 obtain | mark |
| 18 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 rode | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 assistance | det |
| 20 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtain | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 friends | case |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 assistance | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | past | logs = log | the horses | the stable | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme out stable=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | ride off | past | logs = log not said here | rain and wind | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | obtain | to-infinitive | logs = log not said here | the assistance of friends | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset assistance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | assist | friends | nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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