Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 36

They ran on a little farther, and then Christina fell down, and began to cry.

Who acts: needs, Christina · What happens: run, fall down, begin, cry

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 (needs, Christina), 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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 farther	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 farther	obl
6	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 ran	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fell	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 fell	advmod
10	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 fell	nsubj
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 began	cc
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cry	mark
17	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 began	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	needs = need			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on far=Trajectory
2	fall down	past	Christina	then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	needs = need not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	needs = need not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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