Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 87

How had they come here, so many miles inland?

Who acts: hills · What happens: have, come

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 (hills), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 had	advmod
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 miles	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 miles	amod
9	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	parataxis
10	inland	inland	ADV	_	9 miles	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	hills = hill			here			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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