Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 58
In Norway the peasants go into the mountains and take the cattle there to find pasture.
Who acts: peasants · What happens: go, take, find · To what, where: Norway, cattle, pasture
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 (peasants), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Norway | case |
| 2 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peasants | det |
| 4 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cattle | det |
| 12 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 take | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 16 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the peasants | Norway | into the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mountain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the peasants not said here | the cattle | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cattle=Destination | |||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | the peasants not said here | pasture | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Topic |
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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