Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 50

They wanted to hunt the wild boar, and to pass a few days at the castle of Grubbe.

Who acts: brother · What happens: want, hunt, pass · To what, where: wild boar, castle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hunt	mark
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boar	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boar	amod
7	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pass	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pass	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pass	mark
11	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hunt	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 days	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 days	amod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pass	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pass	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Grubbe	case
19	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 castle	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	want	past	brother				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	brother not said here	the wild boar			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Theme
3	pass	to-infinitive	brother not said here		the castle of Grubbe	day	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at castle=Location

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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