Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 204
When they approached it, the cattle, who were very thirsty, saw the stream, and ran down to drink.
Who acts: birds, cattle · What happens: approach, be, see, run down, drink · To what, where: thrashing, stream
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, cattle), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 approached | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cattle | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cattle | det |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thirsty | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 thirsty | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thirsty | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 thirsty | advmod |
| 12 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cattle | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stream | det |
| 16 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ran | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ran | cc |
| 19 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 ran | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 drink | mark |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ran | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | birds = bird | thrashing | the cattle obl | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the cattle | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past | the stream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stream=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | run down | past | down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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