Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 79
They said nothing more, but went out towards their houses among the sand-hills.
Who acts: men · What happens: say, go out · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men), 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 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 houses | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 houses | nmod:poss |
| 11 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 hills | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hills | det |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hills | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sand | punct |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | men = man | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | men = man not said here | towards men's houses; among the sand hills | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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