Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 39

But the house was not yonder; and they wandered still farther, over the dry rustling leaves of the last year, and treading on fallen branches that crackled under their little feet; then they heard a loud, piercing cry, and they stood still to listen.

Who acts: house, factory, fallen branches · What happens: not be, wander, tread, fall, crackle, hear · To what, where: dry rustling leaves, fallen branches, little feet, loud piercing 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 (house, factory, fallen branches), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 wandered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yonder	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yonder	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 yonder	advmod
6	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	10 wandered	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 wandered	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wandered	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wandered	nsubj
10	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 farther	advmod
12	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 wandered	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leaves	punct
14	over	over	ADP	_	18 leaves	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 leaves	det
16	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 leaves	amod
17	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaves	compound
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wandered	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 year	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 year	det
21	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 year	amod
22	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leaves	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 treading	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 treading	cc
25	treading	tread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 wandered	advcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 branches	case
27	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 branches	amod
28	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 treading	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 crackled	nsubj
30	crackled	crackle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 branches	acl:relcl
31	under	under	ADP	_	34 feet	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 feet	nmod:poss
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 feet	amod
34	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 crackled	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 heard	punct
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 heard	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
38	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wandered	parataxis
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 cry	det
40	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 cry	amod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 loud	punct
42	piercing	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 cry	amod
43	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 heard	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 stood	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 stood	cc
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stood	nsubj
47	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 heard	conj
48	still	still	ADV	_	47 stood	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 listen	mark
50	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 stood	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the house				yonder property	tree rules
2	wander	past	factory		the dry rustling leaves of the last year		far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over leaf=Trajectory
3	tread	gerund	factory not said here		fallen branches			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on branch=Trajectory
4	fall	participle						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crackle	past	fallen branches		factory's little feet			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location
6	hear	past	factory	a loud piercing cry		then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
7	pierce	gerund						vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	stand	past	factory			still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	listen	to-infinitive	factory not said here					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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