Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 69

From Norre-Vosborg, where the juniper blossomed, the journey became more pleasant, for they met some other people who were also going to the funeral and were riding in waggons.

Who acts: juniper, journey, trees, other people · What happens: blossom, become, meet, go, ride · To what, where: Norre, other people, funeral, waggons

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 (juniper, journey, trees, other people), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 Norre	case
2	Norre	Norre	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 became	obl
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Vosborg	punct
4	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Norre	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blossomed	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 blossomed	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 juniper	det
8	juniper	juniper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blossomed	nsubj
9	blossomed	blossom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Norre	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Norre	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 journey	det
12	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 pleasant	advmod
15	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 became	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 met	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 met	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 met	nsubj
19	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 became	conj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 people	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 met	obj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 going	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 going	aux
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 going	advmod
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 people	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 funeral	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 funeral	det
29	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 riding	cc
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 riding	aux
32	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 met	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 waggons	case
34	waggons	waggon	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 riding	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blossom	participle	the juniper				vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	become	past	the journey		Norre and Vosborg	pleasant property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	meet	past	trees = tree	some other people			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent
4	go	past · progressive	some other people		the funeral		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to funeral=Initial_Location
5	ride	past · progressive	trees = tree not said here		waggons		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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