Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 70
The animal was fiery and spirited; they galloped round the lawn. "
Who acts: animal, legs · What happens: be, spirit, gallop · To what, where: lawn
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, legs), 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 | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fiery | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fiery | cop |
| 4 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 spirited | cc |
| 6 | spirited | spirit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fiery | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 galloped | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 galloped | nsubj |
| 9 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fiery | conj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 lawn | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lawn | det |
| 12 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 galloped | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fiery | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fiery | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the animal | fiery property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spirit | participle | the animal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gallop | past | legs = leg | the lawn | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round lawn=Trajectory |
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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