Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 41
They rode forth from the thick forest, crossed the heath, and again entered a pathless wood.
Who acts: words · What happens: ride, cross, enter · To what, where: thick forest, heath, pathless wood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 rode | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forest | amod |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crossed | punct |
| 9 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heath | det |
| 11 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crossed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 entered | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 entered | advmod |
| 15 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 17 | pathless | pathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wood | amod |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | words = word | the thick forest | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cross | past | words = word not said here | the heath | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heath=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | words = word not said here | a pathless wood | again | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination |
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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