Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 81

They walked about hand in hand, just as the old couple had done when they were little, but they did not go to the round tower nor to the Fredericksburg garden.

Who acts: sparks, old couple · What happens: walk, do, be, not go · To what, where: hand, round tower

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, old couple), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 hand	case
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 hand	case
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	14 done	advmod
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 done	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 couple	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 couple	amod
12	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 walked	conj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 little	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 little	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 little	cop
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 done	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 go	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 walked	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 tower	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tower	det
27	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tower	amod
28	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	33 garden	cc
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 garden	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 garden	det
32	Fredericksburg	Fredericksburg	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 garden	compound
33	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tower	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past	sparks = spark	hand	about hand	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about hand=Trajectory
2	do	past · perfect	the old couple			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	sparks = spark		little property	tree rules
4	not go	past · do-support	sparks = spark	the round tower nor the Fredericksburg garden		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tower=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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