Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 18
While musing on this strange affair, and without looking to the right or left, he walked on through East Street and over Highbridge Place.
Who acts: gentleman · What happens: muse, look, leave, walk on · To what, where: East Street
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 musing | mark |
| 2 | musing | muse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 walked | advcl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 affair | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 affair | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 affair | amod |
| 6 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 musing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looking | cc |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 looking | mark |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 musing | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 right | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 right | det |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 looking | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 left | cc |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 right | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 musing | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 walked | nsubj |
| 18 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 walked | compound:prt |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 Street | case |
| 21 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Street | compound |
| 22 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 walked | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Place | cc |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 Place | case |
| 25 | Highbridge | Highbridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Place | compound |
| 26 | Place | Place | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Street | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muse | gerund | gentleman not said here | on this strange affair | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on affair=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | gentleman not said here | to the right | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | gentleman not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | walk on | past | gentleman | East Street and Highbridge Place | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
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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