Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 5
Then they passed over well-known spots, where the little one had often played, and through beautiful gardens full of lovely flowers.
Who acts: words · What happens: pass over, know, play · To what, where: known spots, little one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 passed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 known | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 spots | amod |
| 8 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 played | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 played | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 played | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 played | aux |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 played | advmod |
| 16 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 spots | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gardens | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gardens | cc |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 gardens | case |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gardens | amod |
| 21 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gardens | amod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 flowers | case |
| 24 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 flowers | amod |
| 25 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 full | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass over | past | words = word | known spots | then | over property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spot=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | play | past · perfect · passive | the little one | often property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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