Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 34
With silent steps, still sobbing, they left the room.
Who acts: steps · What happens: sob, leave · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steps), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 steps | case |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 steps | amod |
| 3 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 left | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sobbing | punct |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 sobbing | advmod |
| 6 | sobbing | sob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 steps | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 steps | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 left | nsubj |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sob | gerund | steps = step not said here | still | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | steps = step | the room | with silent steps | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent room=Recipient with step=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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