Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 121
So they all sat down to feast on the roasted stag; and as the prince sat by the side of the East Wind, they soon became good friends.
Who acts: Winds, prince · What happens: sit down, feast, roast, sit, become · To what, where: good friends
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winds, prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 they | det |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 feast | mark |
| 7 | feast | feast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sat | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stag | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stag | det |
| 10 | roasted | roast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stag | amod |
| 11 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sat | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 sat | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | nsubj |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Wind | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Wind | det |
| 23 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Wind | compound |
| 24 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 became | nsubj |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 became | advmod |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sat | conj |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 friends | amod |
| 30 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 became | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Winds = wind | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | feast | to-infinitive | Winds = wind not said here | on the roasted stag | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on stag=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roast | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | sit | past | the prince | by the side of the East Wind | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location | ||||
| 5 | become | past | Winds = wind | good friends | soon property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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