Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 17
Jurgen followed the sailor he was with into the church, and stood in the sacred edifice.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: follow, be, stand · To what, where: sailor, sacred edifice
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), 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 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sailor | det |
| 4 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 followed | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 church | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 church | cop |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 church | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 church | det |
| 10 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sailor | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stood | cc |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 edifice | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 edifice | det |
| 16 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 edifice | amod |
| 17 | edifice | edifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Jurgen | the sailor | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sailor=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Jurgen | the sailor not said here | with the church | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stand | past | Jurgen not said here | the sacred edifice | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in edifice=Location |
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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