Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 78
Stags and antelopes accompanied him to the western boundary of his home, and there he found the wild swans.
Who acts: Stags, good · What happens: accompany, find · To what, where: good, western boundary, wild swans
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 (Stags, good), 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 | Stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 accompanied | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 antelopes | cc |
| 3 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stags | conj |
| 4 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 accompanied | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 boundary | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boundary | det |
| 8 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 boundary | amod |
| 9 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accompanied | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 boundary | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 found | expl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accompanied | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 swans | det |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 swans | amod |
| 20 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 found | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | Stags and antelopes | good | the western boundary of good's home | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to boundary=Destination | |||
| 2 | find | past | good | the wild swans | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=Topic |
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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