Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 62
They had crossed high ridges, and traversed snow-fields; they could even see her native valley, with its familiar wooden cottages.
Who acts: homewards · What happens: cross, traverse, see · To what, where: high ridges, native valley
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 (homewards), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | aux |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ridges | amod |
| 5 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fields | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fields | cc |
| 8 | traversed | traverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fields | amod |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fields | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 snow | punct |
| 11 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crossed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 see | advmod |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 valley | nmod:poss |
| 18 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 valley | amod |
| 19 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cottages | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 cottages | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 cottages | nmod:poss |
| 23 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cottages | amod |
| 24 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cottages | amod |
| 25 | cottages | cottage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 see | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · perfect | homewards = homeward | high ridges | traversed snow fields obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient | |||
| 2 | traverse | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see | could | homewards = homeward | mother's native valley | with way's familiar wooden cottages | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valley=Stimulus |
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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