Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 119
Two rich farmers who had in our days shot up higher than their own corn-fields, were flung into the ditch; it was a dangerous flute.
Who acts: Two rich farmers, flute · What happens: have, shoot up, fling, be · To what, where: days, Two rich farmers, ditch, dangerous flute
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two rich farmers, flute), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 farmers | nummod |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmers | amod |
| 3 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flung | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 farmers | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 days | nmod:poss |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obl |
| 9 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 days | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 shot | compound:prt |
| 11 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 shot | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 fields | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 fields | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fields | amod |
| 15 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fields | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 corn | punct |
| 17 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 higher | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 farmers | punct |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flung | aux:pass |
| 20 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 ditch | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ditch | det |
| 23 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flung | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 flute | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 flute | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 flute | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 flute | det |
| 28 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flute | amod |
| 29 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flung | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Two rich farmers | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shoot up | participle | our days not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fling | past · passive | Two rich farmers | the ditch | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme into ditch=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | flute | a dangerous flute | tree rules |
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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