Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 85
Waggon after waggon stood side by side, while the horses and oxen had been turned out to graze on the scanty pasture.
Who acts: Waggon · What happens: stand, turn out, graze · To what, where: side, horses
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 (Waggon), 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 | Waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 waggon | case |
| 3 | waggon | waggon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Waggon | nmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turned | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 turned | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horses | det |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 oxen | cc |
| 13 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 horses | conj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 turned | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 turned | aux:pass |
| 16 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 turned | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 graze | mark |
| 19 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 turned | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 pasture | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pasture | det |
| 22 | scanty | scanty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pasture | amod |
| 23 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 graze | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Waggon after waggon | side | by side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=Destination | |||
| 2 | turn out | past · perfect · passive | the horses and oxen | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | graze | to-infinitive | on the scanty pasture | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on pasture=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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