Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 91
They looked attentively at the crowds of people who passed by them early and late.
Who acts: eyes, people · What happens: look, pass
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 (eyes, people), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | attentively | attentively | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 crowds | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crowds | det |
| 6 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 crowds | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 passed | obl |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 passed | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 late | cc |
| 15 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 early | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | eyes = eye | at the crowds of people; attentively property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at crowd=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | people | by eyes = eye; early property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by they=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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