Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 49
He saw the knights of olden times and noble ladies ride by through the wood on their gallant steeds, with plumes waving in their hats, and falcons on their wrists.
Who acts: cuckoo, knights, plumes · What happens: see, ride, wave · To what, where: gallant steeds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cuckoo, knights, plumes), 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 | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knights | det |
| 4 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ride | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 knights | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ladies | cc |
| 9 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ladies | amod |
| 10 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 times | conj |
| 11 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ride | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 steeds | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 steeds | amod |
| 19 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ride | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plumes | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 plumes | case |
| 22 | plumes | plume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 steeds | conj |
| 23 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 plumes | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hats | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hats | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 waving | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 falcons | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 falcons | cc |
| 29 | falcons | falcon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 wrists | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wrists | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 falcons | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | cuckoo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ride | present | the knights of olden times and noble ladies | knights's gallant steeds and plumes | by the wood | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | wave | gerund | plumes not said here | in knights's hats | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hat=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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