Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 56
This all happened a long time ago; King Christian VII, who sat on the Danish throne, was still a young man.
Who acts: This, Christian VII · What happens: happen, sit, be · To what, where: Christian VII, Danish throne, young man
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 (This, Christian VII), 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 | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 VII | punct |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Christian | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 VII | compound |
| 11 | VII | VII | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 VII | acl:relcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 throne | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 17 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 throne | amod |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sat | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 man | punct |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 man | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 man | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 man | amod |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 VII | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | This | Christian VII | ago, all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | past | Christian VII | the Danish throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a young man | still | 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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