Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 3
The bridal pair went arm-in-arm out through the town and along the high road, at the foot of the wood-covered rocks, and by the deep, blue lake.
Who acts: bridal pair · What happens: go, cover · To what, where: arm
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridal pair), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pair | det |
| 2 | bridal | bridal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pair | amod |
| 3 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 arm | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arm | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 road | cc |
| 15 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 town | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 foot | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 foot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 foot | det |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rocks | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rocks | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 covered | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 wood | punct |
| 27 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 rocks | amod |
| 28 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 foot | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lake | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 lake | cc |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 lake | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 lake | det |
| 33 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lake | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 deep | punct |
| 35 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lake | amod |
| 36 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the bridal pair | arm | arm | through the town and the high road; at the foot of the covered rocks; out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through town=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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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