Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 60
She set out homewards in the month of June, carrying her infant in her arms, and, accompanied by two chamois hunters, crossed the Gemmi on her way to Grindelwald.
Who acts: mother · What happens: set out, carry, accompany, cross · To what, where: homewards, infant, arms, Gemmi, way
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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 month | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 month | det |
| 7 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 June | case |
| 9 | June | June | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 month | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carrying | punct |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 set | advcl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 infant | nmod:poss |
| 13 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 carrying | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 arms | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 arms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carrying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 accompanied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 accompanied | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 accompanied | punct |
| 20 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 set | parataxis |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 hunters | case |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hunters | nummod |
| 23 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hunters | compound |
| 24 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 accompanied | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crossed | punct |
| 26 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 set | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Gemmi | det |
| 28 | Gemmi | Gemmi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 crossed | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 way | nmod:poss |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crossed | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Grindelwald | case |
| 33 | Grindelwald | Grindelwald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 way | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | mother | homewards | month | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | mother not said here | mother's infant | mother's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent infant=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 3 | accompany | participle | by two chamois hunters | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by hunter=Destination | |||||
| 4 | cross | past | mother not said here | the Gemmi | mother's way to Grindelwald | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gemmi=Patient |
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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