Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 3, sentence 7
He saw the Spanish coast, the native land of his parents.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: see · To what, where: Spanish coast
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coast | det |
| 4 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coast | amod |
| 5 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 land | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 8 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 land | amod |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 parents | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 land | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Jurgen | the Spanish coast | the native land of Jurgen's parents obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coast=Stimulus |
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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