Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 86

They drank their coffee and had a chat together, and then Anne Lisbeth went away towards the little town where she was to meet the carrier, who was to drive her back to her own home.

Who acts: hundreds, Anne, carrier · What happens: drink, have, go away, be · To what, where: coffee, chat, little town

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 (hundreds, Anne, carrier), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 coffee	nmod:poss
4	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drank	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 chat	det
8	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 went	advmod
13	Anne	Anne	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
14	Lisbeth	Lisbeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Anne	flat
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 town	amod
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 meet	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 meet	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 meet	cop
24	to	to	PART	_	25 meet	mark
25	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 town	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 carrier	det
27	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 drive	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 drive	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 drive	cop
31	to	to	PART	_	32 drive	mark
32	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 carrier	acl:relcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 drive	obj
34	back	back	ADV	_	32 drive	advmod
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 home	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 home	nmod:poss
37	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 home	amod
38	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drive	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	hundreds = hundred	hundreds's coffee				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient
2	have	past	hundreds = hundred not said here	a chat			together property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient
3	go away	past	Anne		the little town	then	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards town=Initial_Location
4	is	past	Anne				meet property	tree rules
5	is	past	the carrier				to Anne's own home; drive property	tree rules

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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