Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 177
So he went along the street with her; and as they passed under a lamp, the light fell on the little girl's face.
Who acts: Ib, streets, light · What happens: go, pass, fall · To what, where: street, lamp, face
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 (Ib, streets, light), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 passed | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 lamp | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lamp | det |
| 16 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 passed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 light | det |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 passed | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 face | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 girl | case |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ib | the street | with girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along street=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pass | past | streets = street | a lamp | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under lamp=Location | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the light | the little girl's face | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
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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