Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 7
A little boy came and stood by the girl's side: they were brother and sister.
Who acts: little boy, Cabbage · What happens: come, stand, be · To what, where: brother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, Cabbage), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stood | cc |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 girl | case |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 brother | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brother | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brother | cop |
| 15 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sister | cc |
| 17 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brother | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a little boy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | a little boy not said here | by the girl's side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Cabbage | brother and sister | 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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