Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 11
These children rush out in swarms, and surround travellers, whether on foot or in carriages.
Who acts: children · What happens: rush out · To what, where: swarms
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rush | nsubj |
| 3 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 rush | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 swarms | case |
| 6 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rush | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 travellers | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 travellers | cc |
| 9 | surround | surround | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 travellers | compound |
| 10 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rush | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 foot | punct |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 foot | mark |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 foot | case |
| 14 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rush | parataxis |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 carriages | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 carriages | case |
| 17 | carriages | carriage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 foot | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | present | this children | swarms | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swarm=Trajectory |
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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