Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 118
They went through the opened gate, and ascended the broad staircase that led to a building resting on marble pillars.
Who acts: People, broad staircase, building · What happens: go, open, ascend, lead, rest · To what, where: opened gate, broad staircase, marble pillars
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, broad staircase, building), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 gate | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gate | det |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gate | amod |
| 6 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ascended | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ascended | cc |
| 9 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 staircase | det |
| 11 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 staircase | amod |
| 12 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ascended | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 led | nsubj |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 staircase | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 building | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 building | det |
| 17 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 18 | resting | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 building | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 pillars | case |
| 20 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pillars | compound |
| 21 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 resting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | People | the opened gate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | open | participle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ascend | past | People not said here | the broad staircase | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lead | past | the broad staircase | to a building | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to building=Patient | ||||
| 5 | rest | gerund | a building not said here | marble pillars | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pillar=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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