Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 8

The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when they arrived at a number of willow trees on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the great branches and thought they were now really in the wood.

Who acts: rich, poor, way, feelings · What happens: drive, walk, seem, arrive, sit down, look up · To what, where: feelings, number, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich, poor, way, feelings), 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	2 rich	det
2	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drove	nsubj
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 walked	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poor	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seemed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 seemed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seemed	nsubj
12	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walked	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seemed	obl
15	extraordinarily	extraordinarily	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 seemed	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 arrived	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 arrived	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 arrived	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 arrived	nsubj
21	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 walked	parataxis
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 number	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 number	det
24	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arrived	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 trees	case
26	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trees	compound
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 number	nmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 border	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 border	det
30	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trees	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 wood	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wood	det
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 border	nmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sat	nsubj
35	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wood	acl:relcl
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 sat	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 looked	punct
38	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 arrived	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 looked	compound:prt
40	into	into	ADP	_	43 branches	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 branches	det
42	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 branches	amod
43	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 looked	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 thought	cc
45	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 arrived	conj
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 wood	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 wood	cop
48	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 wood	advmod
49	really	really	ADV	_	52 wood	advmod
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 wood	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 wood	det
52	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 thought	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the rich						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	walk	past	the poor						tree rules
3	seem	past	the way		feelings = feeling			long property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	arrive	past	feelings = feeling			a number of willow trees on the border of the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sit down	past	feelings = feeling	the wood not said here					tree rules
6	look up	past	feelings = feeling not said here					into the great branches	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into branch=Theme
7	think speech: other	past	feelings = feeling not said here						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	feelings = feeling			the wood	now		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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