Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 102
The dog of the regiment sprang on in front with large bounds, and made the way three times as long for himself as it really was.
Who acts: dog, way · What happens: spring on, make, be · To what, where: front, way
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, way), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 regiment | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 regiment | det |
| 5 | regiment | regiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dog | nmod |
| 6 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sprang | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sprang | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bounds | case |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bounds | amod |
| 12 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sprang | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 made | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 long | advmod |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 made | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 himself | case |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 made | obl |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 was | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 was | nsubj |
| 26 | really | really | ADV | _ | 27 was | advmod |
| 27 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring on | past | the dog of the regiment | front with large bounds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the dog of the regiment not said here | the way | time | for dog; long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent way=Product for himself=Asset | ||
| 3 | be | past | way | vn exist-47.1 «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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