Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 89
She remembered that the route by the sea-shore was two miles shorter than by the high road; and as the weather was clear, and there would be moonlight, she determined to make her way on foot, and to start at once, that she might reach home the next day.
Who acts: Anne, route, weather, moonlight · What happens: remember, be, determine, make, start, reach · To what, where: way, foot
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 (Anne, route, weather, moonlight), 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 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 shorter | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 route | det |
| 5 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shorter | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shore | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shore | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sea | punct |
| 10 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 route | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 shorter | cop |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 miles | nummod |
| 13 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shorter | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 road | amod |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shorter | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 clear | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clear | cc |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 clear | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 weather | det |
| 24 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 clear | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 clear | cop |
| 26 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 be | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 be | cc |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 be | expl |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 be | aux |
| 31 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 clear | conj |
| 32 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 be | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 determined | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 determined | nsubj |
| 35 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 determined | xcomp |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 way | nmod:poss |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 foot | case |
| 41 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 start | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 start | cc |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 start | mark |
| 45 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 once | case |
| 47 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 45 start | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 reach | punct |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 reach | mark |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 reach | nsubj |
| 51 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 reach | aux |
| 52 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 start | conj |
| 53 | home | home | ADV | _ | 52 reach | advmod |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 day | det |
| 55 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 day | amod |
| 56 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 reach | obl:unmarked |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Anne | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the route by the sea shore | than the high road; two miles obl:unmarked; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the weather | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | would | moonlight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | determine | past | Anne | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | Anne not said here | Anne's way | foot | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 7 | start | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 8 | reach | might | Anne | day | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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