Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 16
Once they wandered a long way into the forest, and even ventured together to climb the high ridge.
Who acts: Jans · What happens: wander, venture, climb · To what, where: long way, forest, high ridge
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 (Jans), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 3 wandered | mark |
| 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wandered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ventured | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ventured | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 ventured | advmod |
| 13 | ventured | venture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wandered | parataxis |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 ventured | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 climb | mark |
| 16 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ventured | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ridge | det |
| 18 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ridge | amod |
| 19 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climb | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Jans = jan | a long way | the forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | venture | participle | together property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | the high ridge | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ridge=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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