Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 56
But his brothers galloped on till the sparks flew, and consequently they arrived a full hour earlier at the town gate than could Jack.
Who acts: brothers, sparks · What happens: gallop, fly, arrive
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, sparks), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 galloped | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 galloped | nsubj |
| 4 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 flew | mark |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 flew | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sparks | det |
| 8 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 galloped | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 arrived | cc |
| 12 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 14 arrived | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 galloped | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hour | det |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hour | amod |
| 17 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obj |
| 18 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 arrived | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 gate | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 gate | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gate | compound |
| 22 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 earlier | obl |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 Jack | case |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 Jack | aux |
| 25 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 gate | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past | Jack's brothers | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fly | past | the sparks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past | sparks = spark | hour | consequently, early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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