Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 31
The way led across the rushing Lutschine, which falls in numerous streams from the dark clefts of the Grindelwald glaciers.
Who acts: way, rushing Lutschine · What happens: lead, rush, fall · To what, where: rushing Lutschine, numerous streams
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 (way, rushing Lutschine), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 Lutschine | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lutschine | det |
| 6 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Lutschine | amod |
| 7 | Lutschine | Lutschine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 falls | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 falls | nsubj |
| 10 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Lutschine | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 streams | case |
| 12 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 streams | amod |
| 13 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 falls | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 clefts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 clefts | det |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clefts | amod |
| 17 | clefts | cleft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 streams | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 glaciers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 glaciers | det |
| 20 | Grindelwald | Grindelwald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 glaciers | compound |
| 21 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clefts | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the way | the rushing Lutschine | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent across lutschine=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fall | present | the rushing Lutschine | numerous streams from the dark clefts of the Grindelwald glaciers | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in stream=Location |
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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