Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 68
They dragged themselves along painfully, and stared at the strangers with vacant eyes.
Who acts: men · What happens: drag, stare · To what, where: men
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 dragged | nsubj |
| 2 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 dragged | obj |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 dragged | advmod |
| 5 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 2 dragged | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stared | cc |
| 8 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | parataxis |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 strangers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strangers | det |
| 11 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stared | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 strangers | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | men = man | men = man | along, painfully property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | stare | past | at the strangers with vacant eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stranger=Theme |
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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