Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 121
The two artists were received by their friends with shouts of welcome.
Who acts: friends · What happens: receive, shout · To what, where: two artists
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 artists | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 artists | nummod |
| 3 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 received | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 received | aux:pass |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 received | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 shouts | case |
| 10 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 friends | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 welcome | case |
| 12 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shouts | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · passive | laurels's friends | the two artists | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | laurels's friends not said here | of welcome | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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