Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 86
Great sand-hills like those at home by the North Sea rose behind the house and extended far and wide.
Who acts: Great sand hills · What happens: rise, extend · To what, where: house
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 (Great sand hills), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:10815): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hills | amod |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hills | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 sand | punct |
| 4 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 hills | nmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 those | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sea | det |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sea | compound |
| 12 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 home | nmod |
| 13 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rose | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 extended | cc |
| 18 | extended | extend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 rose | conj |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 extended | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wide | cc |
| 21 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 19 far | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Great sand hills like those | the house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind house=Location | ||||
| 2 | extend | past | Great sand hills like those not said here | far property | vn exist-47.1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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