Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 99
Yonder heaved a stream of rolling carriages, cabriolets, coaches, omnibuses, cabs, and among them riding gentlemen and marching troops.
Who acts: cabs · What happens: heave, roll, ride · To what, where: stream, gentlemen
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 (cabs), 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 | Yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 2 heaved | advmod |
| 2 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stream | det |
| 4 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heaved | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 carriages | case |
| 6 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 carriages | amod |
| 7 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stream | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cabriolets | punct |
| 9 | cabriolets | cabriolet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carriages | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 coaches | punct |
| 11 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carriages | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 omnibuses | punct |
| 13 | omnibuses | omnibus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carriages | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cabs | punct |
| 15 | cabs | cab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 omnibuses | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 riding | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 riding | cc |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 riding | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 riding | nsubj |
| 20 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 heaved | advcl |
| 21 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 riding | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 troops | cc |
| 23 | marching | marching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 troops | compound |
| 24 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 gentlemen | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | past | a stream of rolling carriages and cabriolets and coaches and omnibuses and cabs | yonder property | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | cabs = cab | gentlemen and marching troops | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme |
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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