Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 76

Then the woman promised to lead the children to the right path, that they might find their way home: and they went forward certainly in quite another direction to the one they meant to take; therefore no one ought to speak against the woman, and say that she wanted to steal the children.

Who acts: woman, one, child · What happens: promise, lead, find, go, mean, take · To what, where: children, right path, way, direction, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (woman, one, child), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 promised	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lead	mark
6	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 children	det
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lead	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 path	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 path	amod
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lead	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 find	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 find	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 find	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 find	aux
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lead	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	home	home	ADV	_	17 find	advmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 went	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 promised	conj
25	forward	forward	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 direction	case
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 direction	advmod
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 direction	det
30	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 one	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 direction	nmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 meant	nsubj
35	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 one	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 meant	xcomp
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 speak	punct
39	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	44 speak	advmod
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 speak	nsubj
42	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 speak	aux
43	to	to	PART	_	44 speak	mark
44	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	parataxis
45	against	against	ADP	_	47 woman	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 woman	det
47	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 speak	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 say	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 say	cc
50	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 speak	conj
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 wanted	mark
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 wanted	nsubj
53	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 say	ccomp
54	to	to	PART	_	55 steal	mark
55	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 wanted	xcomp
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 children	det
57	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 steal	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the woman			then		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lead not said to happen	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	the children	the right path			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to path=Destination
3	find	might	woman	woman's way			home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
4	go	past	woman		another direction to the one		certainly, forward property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
5	mean	past	woman	the one not said here				tree rules
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	speak speech: other	ought	no one				against the woman; therefore property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	infinitive	no one not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	want	past	child					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	steal not said to happen	to-infinitive	child not said here	the children				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=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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