Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 22
One of the fishermen, late on the previous evening, had met Jurgen going towards Martin's house; this was not the first time Jurgen had raised his knife against Martin, so they felt sure that he was the murderer.
Who acts: this, first time, fishermen, Jurgen · What happens: meet, go, not be, raise, feel, be · To what, where: One, house, first time, Jurgen, murderer
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 (this, first time, fishermen, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 met | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fishermen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fishermen | det |
| 4 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 evening | punct |
| 6 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 evening | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 9 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 evening | amod |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 evening | punct |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 met | aux |
| 13 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 met | advcl |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 17 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Martin | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 time | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 time | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 time | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 met | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 raised | aux |
| 29 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 knife | nmod:poss |
| 31 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 raised | obj |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 33 Martin | case |
| 33 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 knife | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 felt | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 felt | advmod |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 felt | nsubj |
| 37 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 met | conj |
| 38 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 felt | xcomp |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 murderer | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 murderer | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 murderer | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 murderer | det |
| 43 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sure | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect · passive | One of the fishermen | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | Martin's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | not is a | past | this | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | raise | past · perfect · passive | the first time not said here | Jurgen | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme knife=Destination | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | fishermen = fisherman | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | Jurgen | the murderer | 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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