Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 55
A rich relation of the fisherman's family had died; the farm was situated far eastward in the country and a little towards the north.
What happens: die, situate · To what, where: rich relation, country
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 relation | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 relation | amod |
| 3 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 family | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fisherman | det |
| 6 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 fisherman | case |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | aux |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 relation | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 situated | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farm | det |
| 13 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 situated | aux:pass |
| 15 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 eastward | advmod |
| 17 | eastward | eastward | ADV | _ | 15 situated | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 little | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | conj |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 north | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 north | det |
| 26 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 little | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past · perfect | a rich relation not said here | of the fisherman's family | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of family=Causer | ||||
| 2 | situate | past · passive | a rich relation | the country | eastward property | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in country=Destination |
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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