Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 107
Then they wandered up the great ridge, and looked across the stream to the heath, where the little hills were covered with the flowering broom.
Who acts: lips · What happens: wander up, look, cover · To what, where: great ridge, little hills
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lips), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wandered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wandered | nsubj |
| 3 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wandered | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ridge | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ridge | amod |
| 7 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wandered | conj |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 stream | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stream | det |
| 13 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 heath | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heath | det |
| 16 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 covered | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 covered | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hills | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hills | amod |
| 21 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 covered | aux:pass |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 heath | acl:relcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 broom | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 broom | det |
| 26 | flowering | flowering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 broom | amod |
| 27 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander up | past | lips = lip | the great ridge | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ridge=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look | past | lips = lip not said here | to the heath; across the stream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across stream=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | the little hills | with the flowering broom | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with broom=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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