Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 119
Then the boy went quickly towards a lake that lay at the end of the garden.
Who acts: boy, lake · What happens: go, lie · To what, where: lake, end
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, lake), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lake | acl:relcl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | a lake | then | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards lake=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | lie | past | a lake | at the end of the garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=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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