Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 22
This came from the heavy wagons rolling over the entrance bridges.
Who acts: This, heavy wagons · What happens: come, roll · To what, where: heavy wagons, entrance bridges
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, heavy wagons), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 wagons | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wagons | det |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wagons | amod |
| 6 | wagons | wagon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 7 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 wagons | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 bridges | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridges | det |
| 10 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bridges | compound |
| 11 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rolling | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | This | the heavy wagons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wagon=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | roll | gerund | the heavy wagons not said here | the entrance bridges | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |
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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