Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 115
Later in the day the two sparrows who had been born there came by. "
Who acts: two sparrows · What happens: bear, come by · To what, where: two sparrows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sparrows), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sparrows | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sparrows | nummod |
| 7 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sparrows | acl:relcl |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 born | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · perfect · passive | the two sparrows | there | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come by | past | the two sparrows | day | late property | 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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