Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 1

This story is from the sand-dunes or sand-hills of Jutland, but it does not begin there in the North, but far away in the South, in Spain.

Who acts: story · What happens: be, not begin · To what, where: sand dunes, North

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dunes	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dunes	cop
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 dunes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dunes	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dunes	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sand	punct
8	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 hills	cc
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hills	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sand	punct
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dunes	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Jutland	case
14	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hills	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 begin	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 begin	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 begin	nsubj
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 begin	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 begin	advmod
20	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dunes	parataxis
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 begin	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 North	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 North	det
24	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 begin	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 away	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 away	cc
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 away	advmod
28	away	away	ADV	_	20 begin	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 South	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 South	det
31	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 away	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Spain	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Spain	case
34	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 begin	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dunes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this story			the sand dunes or sand hills of Jutland			tree rules
2	not begin	present · do-support	story			the North; there		away property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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