Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 48
On Sundays I go out walking in shoes and white silk stockings, and a muff."
Who acts: I · What happens: go out, walk · To what, where: muff, shoes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Sundays | case |
| 2 | Sundays | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 go | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 shoes | case |
| 8 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 walking | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stockings | cc |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stockings | amod |
| 11 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stockings | compound |
| 12 | stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shoes | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 muff | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 muff | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 muff | det |
| 16 | muff | muff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | I | a muff | sunday | out property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | walk | gerund | I not said here | shoes and white silk stockings | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Trajectory |
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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