Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 33

After passing a forest of alders, they began to ascend, passing by some blocks of ice that had loosened themselves from the side of the mountain and lay across their path; they had to step over these ice-blocks or walk round them.

Who acts: alders, ice · What happens: pass, begin, ascend, loosen, lay, have · To what, where: forest, alders, side, path, ice blocks

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 (alders, ice), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 passing	mark
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 began	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 alders	case
6	alders	alder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forest	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 began	nsubj
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 ascend	mark
11	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passing	punct
13	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 ascend	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 blocks	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 blocks	det
16	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 passing	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 ice	case
18	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blocks	nmod
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 loosened	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 loosened	aux
21	loosened	loosen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 ice	acl:relcl
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 loosened	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 side	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 side	det
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 loosened	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 mountain	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 mountain	det
28	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lay	cc
30	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 loosened	conj
31	across	across	ADP	_	33 path	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 path	nmod:poss
33	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 began	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 step	mark
38	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 had	xcomp
39	over	over	ADP	_	43 blocks	case
40	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	43 blocks	det
41	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 blocks	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 ice	punct
43	blocks	block	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 step	obl
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 walk	cc
45	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 step	conj
46	round	round	ADP	_	47 them	case
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 walk	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	alders = alder not said here	a forest of alders			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Trajectory
2	begin	past	alders = alder				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ascend	to-infinitive	alders = alder not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pass	gerund	alders = alder not said here			by some blocks of ice	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by block=Location
5	loosen	past · perfect	ice	alders = alder	the side of the mountain		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
6	lay	infinitive	ice not said here		blocks's path		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	have	past	alders = alder				tree rules
8	step	to-infinitive	alders = alder not said here		this ice blocks		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over block=Trajectory
9	walk	infinitive	alders = alder not said here			round blocks = block	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory

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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