Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 106
He started, and among the dunes met the old fisherman, who was angry at his leaving the place.
Who acts: Jurgen, dunes, old fisherman · What happens: start, meet, be, leave · To what, where: old fisherman, place
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, dunes, old fisherman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 met | cc |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 dunes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dunes | det |
| 7 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 met | nsubj |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 started | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fisherman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fisherman | amod |
| 11 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 angry | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fisherman | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 leaving | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leaving | nsubj |
| 18 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 angry | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Jurgen | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | the dunes | the old fisherman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the old fisherman | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | Jurgen | the place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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