Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 29
Some were put into saucepans and cooked, for they were thought to be fit to eat, and others lay and shrivelled in the sand--they did not accomplish their purpose, or unfold their magnificent colours.
Who acts: others · What happens: put, cook, think, be, eat, lay · To what, where: Some, saucepans, sand, purpose, magnificent colours
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 (others), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 saucepans | case |
| 5 | saucepans | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cooked | cc |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | aux:pass |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fit | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fit | cop |
| 15 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fit | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lay | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lay | cc |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lay | nsubj |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shrivelled | cc |
| 23 | shrivelled | shrivell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 lay | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 sand | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sand | det |
| 26 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shrivelled | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 accomplish | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 accomplish | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 accomplish | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 accomplish | advmod |
| 31 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 lay | conj |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 33 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 accomplish | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 unfold | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 unfold | cc |
| 36 | unfold | unfold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 accomplish | conj |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 colours | nmod:poss |
| 38 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 colours | amod |
| 39 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 unfold | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | Some | saucepans | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 2 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past · passive | saucepans = saucepan | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | fit property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | lay | present | others | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | shrivell | participle | others not said here | the sand | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not accomplish | past · do-support | others = other | others's purpose | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality | ||||
| 9 | unfold | infinitive | others = other not said here | others's magnificent colours | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent colour=Patient | ||||
| 10 | purpose | others = other | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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