Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 190
They were two old ones from the nest and a little one of the family. "
Who acts: Palms · What happens: be · To what, where: two old ones, nest
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 (Palms), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ones | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ones | cop |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ones | nummod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ones | amod |
| 5 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 nest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nest | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ones | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nest | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 family | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 family | det |
| 15 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ones | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ones | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Palms = palm | two old ones | the nest and a little one of the family | 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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