Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 50

The company mounted and drove away along the Boulevard de Sebastopol, that is to say, the underground boulevard, over which the well-known crowded street of that name extended.

Who acts: company, that, known crowded street · What happens: mount, drive away, be, know, extend · To what, where: Boulevard Sebastopol

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 (company, that, known crowded street), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 company	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mounted	nsubj
3	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drove	cc
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mounted	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 drove	advmod
7	along	along	ADP	_	11 Sebastopol	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sebastopol	det
9	Boulevard	Boulevard	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Sebastopol	compound
10	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Boulevard	flat
11	Sebastopol	Sebastopol	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drove	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 say	nsubj:outer
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 say	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mounted	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boulevard	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boulevard	det
19	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boulevard	amod
20	boulevard	boulevard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 say	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 extended	punct
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 extended	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 street	det
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 known	advmod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 well	punct
27	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 street	amod
28	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 street	amod
29	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 extended	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 name	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 name	det
32	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 street	nmod
33	extended	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	mount	past	the company			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
2	drive away	past	the company not said here	the Boulevard Sebastopol	away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along sebastopol=Trajectory
3	is	present	that		say property	tree rules
4	know	participle			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	extend	past	the known crowded street of that name			vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over which=Path

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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