Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 35
She stepped up to the bridge on which the boy stood as she spoke, and came on shore.
Who acts: child, boy · What happens: step up, stand, speak, come · To what, where: bridge, shore · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, boy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 stepped | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bridge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bridge | acl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 shore | case |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step up | past | child | the bridge | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the boy | the bridge | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | child | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | child not said here | shore | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location |
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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