Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 88

They were as large and high as those on the coast, and the wind had carried them there; there was also a legend attached to them.

Who acts: hills, legend · What happens: be, carry, attach · To what, where: wind, legend, hills

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, legend), 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 large	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 large	cop
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 large	case
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 high	cc
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 those	case
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 high	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 coast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coast	det
11	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 those	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carried	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carried	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 carried	aux
17	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 large	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carried	obj
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 carried	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 was	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 was	expl
22	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 large	parataxis
23	also	also	ADV	_	25 legend	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 legend	det
25	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 was	nsubj
26	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 legend	acl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 attached	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	hills = hill				large property	tree rules
2	be		hills = hill not said here				as those	tree rules
3	carry	past · perfect · passive		the wind		there		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Value
4	be	past	a legend			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	attach	participle		a legend not said here	hills = hill			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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