Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 59
On the west coast of Jutland huts have been erected among the sand-hills; they are built of pieces of wreck, and thatched with turf and heather; there are sleeping places round the walls, and here the fishermen live and sleep during the early spring.
Who acts: sleeping places, fishermen · What happens: erect, build, thatch, be, sleep, live · To what, where: west coast, peasants
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 (sleeping places, fishermen), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 coast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 coast | det |
| 3 | west | west | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 coast | amod |
| 4 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 erected | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 huts | case |
| 6 | Jutland | Jutland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 huts | compound |
| 7 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 coast | nmod |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 erected | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 erected | aux:pass |
| 10 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 hills | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hills | det |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hills | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sand | punct |
| 15 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 erected | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 built | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 built | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 built | aux:pass |
| 19 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 erected | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 built | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 wreck | case |
| 23 | wreck | wreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pieces | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thatched | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thatched | cc |
| 26 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 built | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 turf | case |
| 28 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 thatched | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 heather | cc |
| 30 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 turf | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 are | punct |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 are | expl |
| 33 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 erected | conj |
| 34 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 places | amod |
| 35 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 are | nsubj |
| 36 | round | round | ADP | _ | 38 walls | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 walls | det |
| 38 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 places | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 live | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 live | cc |
| 41 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 live | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 fishermen | det |
| 43 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 live | nsubj |
| 44 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 erected | conj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 sleep | cc |
| 46 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 live | conj |
| 47 | during | during | ADP | _ | 50 spring | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 spring | det |
| 49 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 spring | amod |
| 50 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sleep | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 erected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | erect | present · perfect · passive | the west coast of Jutland huts | among the sand hills | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | build | present · passive | peasants = peasant | of pieces of wreck | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | thatch | participle | with turf and heather | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with turf=Theme | |||||
| 4 | does | present | sleeping places round the walls | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | live | present | the fishermen | here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sleep | present | the fishermen not said here | spring | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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