Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 143
The two boys walked first, with their crossbows on their shoulders, and little Ida followed, carrying the pretty box containing the dead flowers.
Who acts: two boys, little Ida, pretty box · What happens: walk, follow, carry, contain · To what, where: pretty box, dead flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two boys, little Ida, pretty box), 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 | 3 boys | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 boys | nummod |
| 3 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 walked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crossbows | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 crossbows | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 crossbows | nmod:poss |
| 9 | crossbows | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 walked | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shoulders | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crossbows | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 followed | cc |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Ida | amod |
| 16 | Ida | Ida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | nsubj |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carrying | punct |
| 19 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 followed | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 box | det |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 box | amod |
| 22 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carrying | obj |
| 23 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 box | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flowers | det |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 flowers | amod |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 containing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the two boys | with cousins's crossbows on cousins's shoulders; first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | little Ida | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | little Ida not said here | the pretty box | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | the pretty box not said here | the dead flowers | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flower=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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