Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 7
No tidings reached Spain of the fate of the daughter and son-in-law.
Who acts: tidings · What happens: reach, fate · To what, where: Spain, daughter
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 (tidings), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tidings | det |
| 2 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fate | det |
| 7 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 daughter | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fate | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 law | cc |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 law | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 law | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 law | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughter | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | no tidings | Spain | of the fate of the daughter and law | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spain=Theme | |||
| 2 | fate | the daughter and law | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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