Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 62
They came from the town of Weile, whither they had come in a ship from Copenhagen.
Who acts: women · What happens: come · To what, where: town, ship
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 (women), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 town | det |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Weile | case |
| 7 | Weile | Weile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 town | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 9 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 come | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 came | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ship | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ship | det |
| 15 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Copenhagen | case |
| 17 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ship | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | women = woman | the town of Weile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | women = woman | a ship from Copenhagen | whither property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ship=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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