Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 65
Jurgen and his foster parents went past this castle.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: go · To what, where: castle
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), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 parents | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 4 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 parents | compound |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Jurgen | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jurgen and Jurgen's foster parents | this castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past castle=Initial_Location |
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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