Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 57
They were both young and healthy, well-grown and strong; but Jurgen was the cleverer of the two.
Who acts: adventures, Jurgen · What happens: be, grow
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 (adventures, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 young | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 young | advmod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 healthy | cc |
| 6 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
| 8 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 grown | discourse |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 well | punct |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 young | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strong | cc |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grown | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 cleverer | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 cleverer | cc |
| 15 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cleverer | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cleverer | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cleverer | det |
| 18 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 young | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 two | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 two | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 cleverer | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | adventures = adventure | both, young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | adventures = adventure not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Jurgen | of the two; clever 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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