Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 28
Just at this time two clever guides were going to cross the mountains to the other side of the Gemmi, and Rudy was to go with them on foot.
Who acts: two clever guides, Rudy · What happens: go, cross, be · To what, where: mountains, other side, foot
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 (two clever guides, Rudy), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 guides | nummod |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guides | amod |
| 7 | guides | guide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cross | mark |
| 11 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cross | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cross | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Gemmi | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Gemmi | det |
| 20 | Gemmi | Gemmi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 side | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 23 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 go | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 go | obl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 foot | case |
| 30 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | two clever guides | time | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | two clever guides not said here | the mountains | the other side of the Gemmi | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient to side=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | past | Rudy | foot | with guides = guide; go property | tree rules |
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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