Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 197
They had come from afar: one from mighty England, others from Germany and France.
Who acts: leaves · What happens: come · To what, where: others, afar
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 (leaves), 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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 afar | case |
| 5 | afar | afar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 afar | appos |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 England | case |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 England | amod |
| 10 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 others | punct |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 Germany | case |
| 14 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 others | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 France | cc |
| 16 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Germany | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | leaves = leaf | others from Germany and France | afar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from afar=Initial_Location |
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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