Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 97

And they spoke of the way in which the sand-dunes had come inland, and it seemed very easy to understand.

Who acts: Ours, sand dunes, it · What happens: speak, come, seem, understand · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ours, sand dunes, it), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 spoke	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoke	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dunes	det
10	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dunes	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 sand	punct
12	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 way	acl:relcl
15	inland	inland	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 seemed	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	conj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 easy	advmod
21	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 seemed	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 understand	mark
23	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 easy	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Ours = our		of the way	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past · perfect	the sand dunes	the way	inland property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
3	seem	past	it		easy property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	understand	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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