Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 44
Carriages rushed past, carriages rolled past; light ones and heavy ones mingled together.
Who acts: Carriages · What happens: rush, roll, mingle · To what, where: past light ones
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 (Carriages), 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 | Carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | past | past | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rolled | punct |
| 5 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rolled | nsubj |
| 6 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 7 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ones | punct |
| 9 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rolled | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ones | cc |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ones | amod |
| 13 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ones | conj |
| 14 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ones | acl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 mingled | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Carriages | past property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | past | carriages | past light ones and heavy ones | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mingle | participle | past light ones and heavy ones not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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