Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 52
She drove across the country in a grazier's cart, and then got out, and continued her journey on foot, and thus reached the count's castle.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: drive, get out, continue, reach, journey · To what, where: country, journey, foot, castle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt), 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 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cart | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 grazier | det |
| 8 | grazier | grazier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 grazier | case |
| 10 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drove | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 got | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 got | advmod |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 got | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 continued | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 continued | cc |
| 18 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | parataxis |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 continued | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reached | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 reached | cc |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 26 reached | advmod |
| 26 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 continued | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 count | det |
| 28 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 castle | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 count | case |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reached | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | doubt | the country | in a grazier's cart | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across country=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | get out | past | doubt not said here | then | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | continue | past | doubt's journey | foot | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | the count's castle | thus property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | journey | doubt | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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