Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 47

At last they both lost themselves in the thicket; Christina began to cry, and then Ib cried too; and, after weeping and lamenting for some time, they stretched themselves down on the dry leaves and fell asleep.

Who acts: oaks, Christina, Ib · What happens: lose, begin, cry, weep, lament, stretch down · To what, where: oaks, thicket, dry leaves

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, Christina, Ib), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lost	nsubj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 lost	advmod
5	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 lost	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 thicket	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thicket	det
9	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
11	Christina	Christina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cry	mark
14	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 began	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 cried	advmod
18	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 cried	nsubj
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cry	conj
20	too	too	ADV	_	19 cried	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 stretched	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stretched	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	after	after	SCONJ	_	25 weeping	mark
25	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 stretched	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lamenting	cc
27	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 weeping	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 time	case
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 time	det
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lamenting	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 weeping	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stretched	nsubj
33	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 began	advcl
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 stretched	obj
35	down	down	ADP	_	33 stretched	compound:prt
36	on	on	ADP	_	39 leaves	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 leaves	det
38	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 leaves	amod
39	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 stretched	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fell	cc
41	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 stretched	conj
42	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 fell	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	oaks = oak	oaks = oak	the thicket		both property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality
2	begin	past	Christina					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	Christina not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	Ib			then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	gerund	oaks = oak not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	lament	gerund	oaks = oak not said here			time		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
7	stretch down	past	oaks = oak	oaks = oak	the dry leaves			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
8	fall	past	oaks = oak not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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