Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 39
Jurgen was now an active helper in this, for he had grown during the last year, and was quick at work.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: active helper, this, work
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 | 6 helper | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 helper | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 helper | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 helper | det |
| 5 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 helper | amod |
| 6 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 helper | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grown | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 grown | case |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grown | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 grown | aux |
| 13 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 helper | conj |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 17 year | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 year | amod |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 quick | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 quick | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 quick | cop |
| 21 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 helper | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 work | case |
| 23 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 quick | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 helper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Jurgen | a active helper | this | now | tree rules | ||
| 2 | grow | past · perfect | Jurgen | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jurgen not said here | work | quick property | tree rules |
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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