Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 25
And then they went out for a walk, which was very slow and tedious.
Who acts: books, walk · What happens: go out, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (books, walk), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 walk | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 walk | det |
| 8 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slow | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 slow | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slow | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 slow | advmod |
| 13 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 walk | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tedious | cc |
| 15 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slow | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | books = book | then | for a walk; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | a walk | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a walk not said here | 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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