Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 27
The party landed just at the place where Sir Bugge's castle had stood, and where Jurgen had walked with his foster-parents after the burial feast, during the four happiest days of his childhood.
Who acts: party, castle, Jurgen · What happens: land, stand, walk · To what, where: place
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 (party, castle, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 landed | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 landed | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | advmod |
| 9 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 castle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Bugge | Bugge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sir | flat |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Sir | case |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | aux |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walked | cc |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 walked | advmod |
| 18 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 walked | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 walked | aux |
| 20 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 landed | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 parents | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 parents | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 parents | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 foster | punct |
| 25 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 walked | obl |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 feast | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 feast | det |
| 28 | burial | burial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 feast | amod |
| 29 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 walked | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 days | punct |
| 31 | during | during | ADP | _ | 35 days | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 days | det |
| 33 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 days | nummod |
| 34 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 days | amod |
| 35 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 walked | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 childhood | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 38 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 days | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | the party | the place | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · perfect | Sir's castle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | walk | past · perfect | Jurgen | after the burial feast; day | with Jurgen's foster parents | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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