Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 91
Jurgen went in and out the house; and on the third day he felt as much at home as he did in the fisherman's cottage among the sand-hills, where he had passed his early days.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: go in, feel, do, pass · To what, where: much, home, cottage
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 (Jurgen), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 house | cc |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 felt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 felt | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 felt | nsubj |
| 15 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 felt | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 felt | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 felt | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 cottage | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fisherman | det |
| 25 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 fisherman | case |
| 27 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | obl |
| 28 | among | among | ADP | _ | 32 hills | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hills | det |
| 30 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hills | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 sand | punct |
| 32 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 did | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 passed | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 passed | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 passed | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 passed | aux |
| 37 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 hills | acl |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 days | nmod:poss |
| 39 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 days | amod |
| 40 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 passed | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Jurgen | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Jurgen | much | home | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent much=Theme at home=Location | ||
| 3 | do | past | Jurgen | the fisherman's cottage | among the sand hills | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | pass | past · perfect | Jurgen | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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