Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 2
Here we are reminded again of the song about "The King of England's Son," for in it mention is made of the custom prevalent at the time, when knights and squires plundered those who had been saved from shipwreck.
Who acts: knights · What happens: remind, make, plunder, save · To what, where: we, mention, those, shipwreck
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 (knights), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 reminded | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reminded | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reminded | aux:pass |
| 4 | reminded | remind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 reminded | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 song | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 song | det |
| 8 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 King | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 song | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Son | case |
| 14 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 England | case |
| 16 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Son | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Son | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 song | nmod |
| 22 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux:pass |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reminded | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 prevalent | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 prevalent | det |
| 27 | custom | custom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 prevalent | amod |
| 28 | prevalent | prevalent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 plundered | punct |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 plundered | advmod |
| 34 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 plundered | nsubj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 squires | cc |
| 36 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 knights | conj |
| 37 | plundered | plunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | conj |
| 38 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 plundered | obj |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 saved | aux |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 saved | aux:pass |
| 42 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 those | acl:relcl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 shipwreck | case |
| 44 | shipwreck | shipwreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 saved | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | present · passive | we | here | again | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make | present · passive | mention | time | of the song about the King of England's Son for song; of the custom prevalent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 3 | plunder | past | knights and squires | those | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Source | ||||
| 4 | save | past · perfect · passive | shipwreck | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from shipwreck=Source |
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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