Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 8
They did not arrive at their destination, and violent storms had raged during the past weeks.
Who acts: tidings, violent storms · What happens: not arrive, rage · To what, where: destination
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, violent storms), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrive | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrive | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 arrive | advmod |
| 4 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 destination | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 destination | nmod:poss |
| 7 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrive | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 raged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 raged | cc |
| 10 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 storms | amod |
| 11 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 raged | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 raged | aux |
| 13 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arrive | conj |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 weeks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 weeks | det |
| 16 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 weeks | amod |
| 17 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 raged | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not arrive | past · do-support | tidings = tiding | tidings's destination | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rage | past · perfect | violent storms | week | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «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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