Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 70

Our travellers had to sit all together on a little box at the back of the waggon, but even this, they thought, was better than walking.

Who acts: travellers, this · What happens: have, sit, think, be, walk · To what, where: this, little box · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (travellers, this), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 travellers	nmod:poss
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sit	mark
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 together	advmod
7	together	together	ADV	_	5 sit	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 box	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 box	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 box	amod
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 back	det
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 waggon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 waggon	det
17	waggon	waggon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 back	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 this	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 this	cc
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 this	advmod
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 had	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thought	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 better	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 better	cop
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 thought	ccomp
28	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 walking	mark
29	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 better	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Our travellers	this			tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	this not said here		a little box at the back of the waggon	together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on box=Location
3	think speech: other	past	travellers = traveller				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				good property	tree rules
5	walk	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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