Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 38
They took him away to the town of Ringkjobing, where he was imprisoned with equal severity.
Who acts: sunbeam · What happens: take away, imprison · To what, where: Jurgen
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 (sunbeam), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ringkjobing | case |
| 9 | Ringkjobing | Ringkjobing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 town | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 imprisoned | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 imprisoned | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 imprisoned | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 14 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 town | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 severity | case |
| 16 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 severity | amod |
| 17 | severity | severity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 imprisoned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | sunbeam | Jurgen | to the town of Ringkjobing; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | imprison | past · passive | Jurgen | with equal severity | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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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