Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 55

And after that they were almost better friends than ever; when afterwards they returned to the dunes and began telling their adventures, this was told among the rest.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: be, return, begin, tell, adventure · To what, where: adventures, this · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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	_	8 friends	cc
2	after	after	ADP	_	8 friends	case
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 friends	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 friends	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 friends	cop
6	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 better	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 friends	amod
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 friends	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 returned	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 afterwards	advmod
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	15 returned	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 returned	nsubj
15	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 friends	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 dunes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dunes	det
18	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 returned	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 returned	conj
21	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 began	xcomp
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 adventures	nmod:poss
23	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 telling	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 told	punct
25	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 told	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 told	aux:pass
27	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 returned	conj
28	among	among	ADP	_	30 rest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rest	det
30	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 friends	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	eyes = eye		after better friends		tree rules
2	return	past	eyes = eye			to the dunes result; afterwards property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dune=Result
3	begin	past	eyes = eye not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	eyes's adventures			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	past · passive		this		among the rest	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
6	adventure		eyes = eye				nom adventure «act 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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