Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 34
Then he scattered the dry leaves over the light earth with his foot, and went home through the darkness; but he went not alone, as he thought,--the little elf accompanied him.
Who acts: elf, little elf · What happens: scatter, go, not go, think, accompany · To what, where: dry leaves, light earth, darkness, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf, little elf), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 scattered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scattered | nsubj |
| 3 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaves | det |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leaves | amod |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scattered | obj |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 earth | det |
| 9 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 earth | compound |
| 10 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scattered | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 foot | nmod:poss |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 earth | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scattered | conj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 darkness | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 darkness | det |
| 20 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scattered | parataxis |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thought | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 thought | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 accompanied | punct |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 accompanied | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 elf | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 elf | amod |
| 35 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 accompanied | nsubj |
| 36 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 thought | ccomp |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 accompanied | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past | elf | the dry leaves | the light earth with elf's foot | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme over earth=Destination | ||
| 2 | go | past | elf not said here | the darkness | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through darkness=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | not go | past | elf | alone property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | elf | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | accompany | past | the little elf | brother | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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