Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 45
So they went on, but the road led them out of the way; no house could be seen, it grew dark, and the children were afraid.
Who acts: oaks, road, house, children · What happens: go on, lead, see, grow, be · To what, where: oaks, way, house
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 (oaks, road, house, children), 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 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 led | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | nsubj |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | conj |
| 24 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 afraid | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 afraid | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 children | det |
| 28 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 afraid | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 afraid | cop |
| 30 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | oaks = oak | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | the road | oaks = oak | the way | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme out way=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | could · passive | no house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | house | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the children | afraid property | tree rules |
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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