Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 61
Jens Glob, of Thyland, has come back, and his mother with him."
Who acts: Jens · What happens: come back · To what, where: mother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jens), 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 | Jens | Jens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 2 | Glob | Glob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jens | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Thyland | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Thyland | case |
| 5 | Thyland | Thyland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Jens | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jens | punct |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 come | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mother | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mother | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | present · perfect | Jens and Thyland | Thyland's mother with Thyland | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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