Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 51

They wrapped tobacco in strips of paper, and smoked it; and I remember they were uncertain as to the road they ought to take.

Who acts: Albanians, I · What happens: wrap, smoke, remember, be, take · To what, where: tobacco, strips · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Albanians, I), 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 wrapped	nsubj
2	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wrapped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 strips	case
5	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wrapped	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 paper	case
7	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strips	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 smoked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 smoked	cc
10	smoked	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wrapped	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smoked	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 remember	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 remember	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 remember	nsubj
15	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wrapped	parataxis
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 uncertain	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 uncertain	cop
18	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 remember	ccomp
19	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	22 road	case
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 as	fixed
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 road	det
22	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 uncertain	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
24	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 take	aux
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 road	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wrapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wrap	past	Albanians = albanian	tobacco	strips of paper		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tobacco=Theme in strip=Destination
2	smoke	past		tobacco			vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source
3	remember	present	I				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Albanians = albanian			as the road; uncertain property	tree rules
5	take	ought	Albanians = albanian				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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