Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 210
Yes, they are really our old neighbours; we remember their origin near the pond.
Who acts: sparrows, we · What happens: be, remember · To what, where: old neighbours, origin, pond
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 (sparrows, we), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 neighbours | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 neighbours | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 neighbours | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 neighbours | advmod |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 neighbours | amod |
| 8 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 remember | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 remember | nsubj |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 neighbours | acl:relcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 origin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remember | obj |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 pond | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pond | det |
| 16 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remember | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 neighbours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sparrows = sparrow | our old neighbours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remember | present | we | sparrows's origin | the pond | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent origin=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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