Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 2
But this time I happened to see two children playing in this wilderness of sweepings.
Who acts: time, two children · What happens: happen, see, play · To what, where: two children, wilderness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, two children), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 happened | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happened | xcomp |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 children | nummod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 children | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 wilderness | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 wilderness | det |
| 13 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 playing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sweepings | case |
| 15 | sweepings | sweeping | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wilderness | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | this time not said here | two children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | two children not said here | this wilderness of sweepings | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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