Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 15
Jurgen stepped in; but before he had got half-way across, the men whom he had seen riding so hastily, came up, hailed the ferry-man, and commanded him to return in the name of the law.
Who acts: Jurgen, men · What happens: step in, get, see, ride, come up, hail · To what, where: half way, men, ferry man, Jurgen, name, law · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, men), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 2 stepped | compound:prt |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 came | advcl |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 12 way | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 half | punct |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 13 | across | across | ADV | _ | 9 got | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 men | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 got | obl |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seen | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 men | acl:relcl |
| 21 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 seen | xcomp |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 hastily | advmod |
| 23 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 21 riding | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | parataxis |
| 26 | up | up | ADV | _ | 25 came | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hailed | punct |
| 28 | hailed | hail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 came | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 30 | ferry | ferry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 man | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 ferry | punct |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hailed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 commanded | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 commanded | cc |
| 35 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 commanded | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 return | mark |
| 38 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 commanded | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 name | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 name | det |
| 41 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 return | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 law | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 law | det |
| 44 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 name | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step in | past | Jurgen | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | Jurgen | half way | the men obl; across property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Jurgen | the men | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ride | gerund | the men not said here | hastily property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come up | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | hail | past | the ferry man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||||
| 7 | command | past | Jurgen not said here | Jurgen | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jurgen not said here | the name of the law | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | name | the law | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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