Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 79

And they passed by everything the little girl, who was sitting behind on the stick, described, and the boy saw it, and yet they only went round the lawn.

Who acts: sparks, little girl, boy · What happens: pass, sit, describe, see, go · To what, where: little girl, stick, 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 (sparks, little girl, boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 passed	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 everything	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 passed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 girl	amod
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sitting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 girl	acl
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	12 sitting	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 stick	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stick	det
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 described	punct
18	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stick	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 saw	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 saw	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
27	yet	yet	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 went	nsubj
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saw	conj
31	round	round	ADP	_	33 lawn	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 lawn	det
33	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	sparks = spark	the little girl			by everything	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent girl=Theme by everything=Destination
2	sit	past · progressive	the little girl		the stick		behind property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stick=Location
3	describe	participle		the stick not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	see	past	the boy	stick				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	go	past	sparks = spark		the lawn	yet		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round lawn=Initial_Location

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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