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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 14

I was running along the dirty road by the side of the carriage as hungry as a dog could be, chewing the cud of my own thoughts, which were rather in confusion.

Who acts: I, own thoughts, my · What happens: run, chew, be, think · To what, where: dirty road, cud, confusion

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, own thoughts, my), 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

nsubjauxcasedetamodoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodadvmodamodmarkdetnsubjauxadvclpunctconjdetobjcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctnsubjcopadvmodcaseconjpunctrootIPRONwasAUXrunningVERBalongADPtheDETdirtyADJroadNOUNbyADPtheDETsideNOUNofADPtheDETcarriageNOUNasADVhungryADJasSCONJaDETdogNOUNcouldAUXbeAUX,PUNCTchewingVERBtheDETcudNOUNofADPmyPRONownADJthoughtsNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwereAUXratherADVinADPconfusionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs3 runningnsubj
2wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 runningaux
3runningrunVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
4alongalongADP_7 roadcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 roaddet
6dirtydirtyADJDegree=Pos7 roadamod
7roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing3 runningobl
8bybyADP_10 sidecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 sidedet
10sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing3 runningobl
11ofofADP_13 carriagecase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 carriagedet
13carriagecarriageNOUNNumber=Sing10 sidenmod
14asasADV_15 hungryadvmod
15hungryhungryADJDegree=Pos13 carriageamod
16asasSCONJ_20 bemark
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 dogdet
18dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing20 bensubj
19couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin20 beaux
20bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf15 hungryadvcl
21,,PUNCT_22 chewingpunct
22chewingchewVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 runningconj
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 cuddet
24cudcudNOUNNumber=Sing22 chewingobj
25ofofADP_28 thoughtscase
26mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 thoughtsnmod:poss
27ownownADJDegree=Pos28 thoughtsamod
28thoughtsthoughtNOUNNumber=Plur24 cudnmod
29,,PUNCT_34 confusionpunct
30whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel34 confusionnsubj
31werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 confusioncop
32ratherratherADV_34 confusionadvmod
33ininADP_34 confusioncase
34confusionconfusionNOUNNumber=Sing28 thoughtsconj
35..PUNCT_3 runningpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1runpast · progressiveIthe dirty roadby the side of the carriagevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
2chewgerundI not said herethe cud of my own thoughts and confusionvn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient
3ispastmy own thoughts and confusionconfusiontree rules
4thinkmynom thought «cognition 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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