Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 133
By this means they recognised each other, for they were the sparrows from the nest on the burned house.
Who acts: this, man · What happens: mean, recognise, be, burn · To what, where: each, nest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this, man), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recognised | nsubj |
| 5 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 recognised | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sparrows | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sparrows | case |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sparrows | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sparrows | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sparrows | det |
| 13 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 recognised | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 nest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nest | det |
| 16 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sparrows | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 19 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 house | amod |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nest | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | recognise | past | man | each | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | man | the nest on the burned house | for the sparrows | tree rules | |||
| 4 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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