Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 8
There were stags, squirrels, antelopes, and hundreds of other beautiful and light-footed animals here found a home.
Who acts: stags, hundreds · What happens: be, find · To what, where: home
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, hundreds), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 squirrels | punct |
| 5 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stags | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 antelopes | punct |
| 7 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stags | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 10 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 found | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 animals | case |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animals | amod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 animals | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 footed | cc |
| 15 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 footed | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 light | punct |
| 17 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beautiful | conj |
| 18 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hundreds | nmod |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 animals | advmod |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 home | det |
| 22 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | stags and squirrels and antelopes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | hundreds of other beautiful animals | a home | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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