Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 5
The student wandered up and down the path; it was just six o'clock, and he could hear the sound of the post-horn in the street. "
Who acts: student, path · What happens: wander up, be, hear · To what, where: six o'clock, sound
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (student, path), 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 student | det |
| 2 | student | student | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 path | cc |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 o'clock | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 o'clock | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 o'clock | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 o'clock | advmod |
| 13 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 o'clock | nummod |
| 14 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hear | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hear | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hear | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hear | aux |
| 19 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wandered | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sound | det |
| 21 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hear | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 post-horn | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 post-horn | det |
| 24 | post-horn | post-horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sound | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 street | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 street | det |
| 27 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 post-horn | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 hear | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander up | past | the student | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | path | six o'clock | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hear | could | student | the sound of the post-horn in the street | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
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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