Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 84
They stopped before the house of mourning, where they found plenty of guests within and without.
Who acts: heath · What happens: stop, find · To what, where: plenty
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 (heath), 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 | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mourning | case |
| 7 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 found | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mourning | acl:relcl |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 guests | case |
| 14 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 found | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 without | cc |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 within | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | heath | before the house of mourning | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | past | heath | plenty of guests | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic |
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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