Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 90
More than once she met the noble Sir Palle Dyre, of Norrebak, who was also wandering about with his gun and his dogs.
Who acts: spirit, Norrebak · What happens: meet, wonder · To what, where: noble Palle Dyre
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 (spirit, Norrebak), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 5 met | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 met | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dyre | det |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Dyre | amod |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Palle | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Palle | Palle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dyre | compound |
| 10 | Dyre | Dyre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Norrebak | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Norrebak | case |
| 13 | Norrebak | Norrebak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dyre | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandering | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wandering | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wandering | aux |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 wandering | advmod |
| 18 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 Norrebak | acl |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 wandering | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 gun | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 gun | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wandering | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dogs | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Dyre | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | spirit | the noble Palle Dyre and Norrebak and Norrebak's dogs | once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dyre=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | Norrebak | with Norrebak's gun; about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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