Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 23
And all the children out of the lane--yes, even out of the little lane at the back--flocked to the place, and each gave a button.
Who acts: children · What happens: flock, give · To what, where: button
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gave | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 children | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 lane | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lane | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lane | det |
| 8 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 children | nmod |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 yes | punct |
| 10 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 29 gave | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lane | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 lane | advmod |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 lane | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lane | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lane | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lane | amod |
| 17 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 yes | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 back | det |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lane | nmod |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 flocked | punct |
| 22 | flocked | flock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lane | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flocked | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gave | cc |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 gave | nsubj |
| 29 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 button | det |
| 31 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gave | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flock | participle | all children out the lane not said here | to the place | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | all children out the lane | a button | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=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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