Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 30

He came ashore, and went home to the sand-dunes near Hunsby; but his foster-mother had died during his absence.

Who acts: vessel, foster mother · What happens: come, go, die, absent · To what, where: sand dunes

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 (vessel, foster mother), 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 dunes	case
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	6 went	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	14 Hunsby	case
14	Hunsby	Hunsby	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dunes	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 died	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 died	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
18	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 foster	punct
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 died	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 died	aux
22	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
23	during	during	ADP	_	25 absence	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 absence	nmod:poss
25	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 died	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	vessel			ashore property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	vessel not said here	the sand dunes near Hunsby		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dune=Initial_Location
3	die	past · perfect	vessel's foster mother		during vessel's absence		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	absent		vessel				nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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