Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 77
In the wild wood-path they met a forester who knew Ib, and, by his help, Ib and Christina reached home, where they found every one had been very anxious about them.
Who acts: woman, forester, help, one, Ib · What happens: meet, know, reach, find, be, help · To what, where: forester, wild wood path, Ib · 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, forester, help, one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 path | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 path | det |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 path | amod |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 path | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wood | punct |
| 6 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 forester | det |
| 10 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forester | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reached | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reached | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 help | nmod:poss |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ib | punct |
| 21 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Christina | cc |
| 23 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ib | conj |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 met | conj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 reached | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 found | punct |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 found | advmod |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 found | nsubj |
| 29 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 reached | conj |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 anxious | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 anxious | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 anxious | cop |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 anxious | advmod |
| 35 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 found | ccomp |
| 36 | about | about | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 anxious | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | woman | a forester | the wild wood path | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forester=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | know | past | a forester | Ib | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer ib=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Ib's help | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | woman | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | every one | about woman; anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | help | Ib | nom help «act transitive»: poss=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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