Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 177
But in India, in the castle on the Tree of the Sun, all was solitary and still, since the brothers had gone away one after the other.
Who acts: all, brothers · What happens: be, go · To what, where: India
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, brothers), 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 | _ | 17 solitary | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 India | case |
| 3 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 solitary | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 castle | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 India | appos |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Tree | det |
| 10 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 castle | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tree | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 India | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 solitary | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 solitary | cop |
| 17 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 still | cc |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 solitary | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 gone | punct |
| 21 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 25 gone | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 brothers | det |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 gone | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 gone | aux |
| 25 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 solitary | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 gone | advmod |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 away | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 30 other | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 solitary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | India | solitary property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the brothers | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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