Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 93
In a moment the fisher people sprung from their beds and hastily dressed themselves.
What happens: spring, dress · To what, where: fisher people, beds, people
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 5 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 people | compound |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moment | nmod |
| 7 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 people | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 beds | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sprung | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dressed | cc |
| 12 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 13 dressed | advmod |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sprung | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 dressed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | participle | the fisher people not said here | people's beds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | dress | past | people | hastily property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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