Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 95

The fourth day came, and the funeral festivities were at an end; they were to go back from the land-dunes to the sand-dunes.

Who acts: fourth day, funeral festivities, festivities · What happens: come, be, go back · To what, where: end, land dunes

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 (fourth day, funeral festivities, festivities), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 end	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 festivities	det
8	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 festivities	compound
9	festivities	festivity	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 end	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 end	cop
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	24 dunes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dunes	det
22	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dunes	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 land	punct
24	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 go	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 dunes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dunes	det
27	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dunes	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 sand	punct
29	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the fourth day				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the funeral festivities		at a end		tree rules
3	go back	past	festivities = festivity	the land dunes		to the sand dunes result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dune=Result

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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