Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 22
Gallop, gallop, away he went, seated in front of a richly-attired knight, with a waving plume, who held him on the saddle, and so they rode through the wood by the old town of Wordingburg, which was very large and busy.
Who acts: Tuk, waving plume, Gallop, old town · What happens: go, seat, attire, wave, hold, ride · To what, where: Gallop, front, Tuk, saddle, wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuk, waving plume, Gallop, old town), 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 | Gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gallop | punct |
| 3 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gallop | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gallop | punct |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seated | punct |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 knight | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 knight | det |
| 14 | richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 attired | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 richly | punct |
| 16 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 knight | amod |
| 17 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 front | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plume | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 plume | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 plume | det |
| 21 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 plume | amod |
| 22 | plume | plume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 held | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 held | nsubj |
| 25 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 plume | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 held | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 saddle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 saddle | det |
| 29 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 held | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rode | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 rode | cc |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 rode | advmod |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 rode | nsubj |
| 34 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 35 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 wood | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 wood | det |
| 37 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rode | obl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 town | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 town | det |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 town | amod |
| 41 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rode | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Wordingburg | case |
| 43 | Wordingburg | Wordingburg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 town | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 large | punct |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 large | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 large | cop |
| 47 | very | very | ADV | _ | 48 large | advmod |
| 48 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 town | amod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 busy | cc |
| 50 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 large | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tuk | Gallop and gallop | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | seat | participle | front of a attired knight | with a waving plume | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location | ||||
| 3 | attire | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | wave | gerund | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | hold | past | a waving plume | Tuk | the saddle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on saddle=Location | |||
| 6 | ride | past | Gallop | the wood | by the old town of Wordingburg | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | is | past | the old town of Wordingburg | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | the old town of Wordingburg not said here | tree rules |
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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