Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 105
He quickly crossed the bridge where the two rivers flow into each other.
Who acts: Rudy, two rivers · What happens: cross, flow · To what, where: bridge, each
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, two rivers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 crossed | advmod |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bridge | det |
| 5 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 flow | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rivers | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rivers | nummod |
| 9 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flow | nsubj |
| 10 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 10 flow | obl |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | Rudy | the bridge | quickly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient | |||
| 2 | flow | present | the two rivers | each | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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