Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 67
One day he went for a walk across the fields with his young pupils and their elder sister, who had lately been confirmed.
Who acts: pastor · What happens: go, confirm · To what, where: fields, elder sister
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 (pastor), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 walk | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 walk | det |
| 7 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pupils | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pupils | nmod:poss |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pupils | amod |
| 14 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sister | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sister | nmod:poss |
| 17 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sister | amod |
| 18 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pupils | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 confirmed | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 confirmed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 confirmed | aux |
| 22 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 24 confirmed | advmod |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 24 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sister | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | pastor | the fields | day | for a walk; with pastor's young pupils and pupils's elder sister | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across field=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | confirm | past · perfect · passive | pupils's elder sister | lately property | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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