Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 42

They came at length to rocky ground; sometimes stepping upon moss-covered stones, sometimes passing beneath stunted fir-trees, and again through green meadows.

Who acts: men · What happens: come, step, cover, pass, stunt · To what, where: length, covered stones, stunted fir trees

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 (men), 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	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 length	case
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ground	amod
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 stepping	punct
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 stepping	advmod
10	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 stones	case
12	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 moss	punct
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stones	amod
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stepping	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passing	punct
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 passing	advmod
18	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stepping	conj
19	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	23 trees	case
20	stunted	stunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 trees	amod
21	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 trees	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 fir	punct
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passing	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 again	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 again	cc
26	again	again	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 meadows	case
28	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 meadows	amod
29	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 again	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	men = man	length	again	to rocky ground	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location
2	step	gerund	men = man not said here	covered stones		sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon stone=Trajectory
3	cover	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	pass	gerund	men = man not said here	stunted fir trees		sometimes property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath tree=Location
5	stunt	participle					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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