Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 52
The sons had never gone farther from the castle than the branches of the trees extended, and the sister had scarcely ever left home.
Who acts: sons, branches · What happens: not go, extend, leave · To what, where: castle, sister
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 (sons, branches), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sons | det |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 gone | advmod |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 gone | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 branches | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branches | det |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 castle | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 extended | obl |
| 16 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 branches | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sister | det |
| 20 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 22 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 24 left | advmod |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 left | advmod |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gone | conj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 left | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | the sons | the castle than the branches | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | extend | past | the branches not said here | of the trees | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the sister | ever | home, scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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