Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 244
They had arrived, accompanied by the birds of passage, the stag, the antelope, and all the creatures of the forest who wished to take part in their joy.
Who acts: leaves, forest · What happens: arrive, accompany, wish, take, joy · To what, where: part, joy
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 (leaves, forest), 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 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | aux |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accompanied | punct |
| 5 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 arrived | conj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 birds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 birds | det |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 passage | case |
| 10 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 birds | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stag | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stag | det |
| 13 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passage | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 antelope | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 antelope | det |
| 16 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passage | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 creatures | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 creatures | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 creatures | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 creatures | det |
| 21 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 creatures | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 wished | nsubj |
| 26 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forest | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wished | xcomp |
| 29 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 joy | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 joy | nmod:poss |
| 32 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | leaves = leaf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | accompany | participle | leaves = leaf not said here | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish | past | the forest | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the forest not said here | part | leaves's joy | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in joy=Location | |||
| 5 | joy | leaves = leaf | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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