Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 56
Silver plate, and fine linen and woollen, went off to Copenhagen in a ship, while the bride made the journey by land in ten days.
Who acts: Silver plate, bride · What happens: go off, make · To what, where: Copenhagen, ship, journey
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 (Silver plate, bride), 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 | Silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plate | amod |
| 2 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 linen | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 linen | cc |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 linen | amod |
| 6 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plate | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 woollen | cc |
| 8 | woollen | woollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 linen | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 plate | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Copenhagen | case |
| 13 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ship | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ship | det |
| 16 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bride | det |
| 20 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 journey | det |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 land | case |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 days | case |
| 27 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 days | nummod |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 made | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | Silver plate and fine linen | Copenhagen | a ship | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ship=Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | the bride | the journey | day | by land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product |
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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