Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 36
They advanced in honour, in prosperity, and in happiness.
Who acts: shadows · What happens: advance · To what, where: honour
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 (shadows), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 advanced | nsubj |
| 2 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 honour | case |
| 4 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advanced | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prosperity | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 prosperity | case |
| 7 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 honour | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 happiness | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 happiness | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 happiness | case |
| 11 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 advanced | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | shadows = shadow | honour and prosperity | in happiness | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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