Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 17

He grew apace in the humble cottage, and the Danish dialect spoken by the West Jutes became his language.

Who acts: Jurgen, Danish dialect · What happens: grow, speak, become · To what, where: Danish dialect, language · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, Danish dialect), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	apace	apace	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cottage	det
6	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cottage	amod
7	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apace	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dialect	det
11	Danish	danish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dialect	amod
12	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	nsubj
13	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 dialect	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 Jutes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Jutes	det
16	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Jutes	compound
17	Jutes	Jutes	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 spoken	obl
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 language	nmod:poss
20	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Jurgen		apace property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	participle		the Danish dialect not said here	by the West Jutes	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	past	the Danish dialect	Jurgen's language		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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