Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 60
Jurgen and his parents now stood there; the wall and the ramparts still remained, and red crumbling fragments lay scattered around.
Who acts: Jurgen, ramparts · What happens: stand, remain, scatter around · To what, where: wall, red crumbling fragments
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, ramparts), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 parents | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 parents | nmod:poss |
| 4 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Jurgen | conj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 wall | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 remained | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ramparts | det |
| 13 | ramparts | rampart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 remained | nsubj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 remained | advmod |
| 15 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scattered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 scattered | cc |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fragments | amod |
| 19 | crumbling | crumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fragments | compound |
| 20 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 scattered | aux:pass |
| 22 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stood | conj |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 22 scattered | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Jurgen and Jurgen's parents | the wall | there | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | remain | past | the ramparts | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scatter around | present · passive | red crumbling fragments | around property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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