Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 53
Weeks, months, a whole year had gone by, when Niels the thief, called also a horse-dealer, was arrested; and now better times came, and it was seen that Jurgen had been wrongly accused.
Who acts: whole year, thief · What happens: go, call, arrest, come, see, accuse · To what, where: horse dealer, Niels, dealer, Jurgen · 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 (whole year, thief), 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 | Weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 months | punct |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Weeks | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 arrested | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 arrested | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 arrested | advmod |
| 13 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 thief | det |
| 15 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Niels | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 thief | acl |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 dealer | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dealer | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dealer | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 horse | punct |
| 22 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Niels | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 arrested | aux:pass |
| 25 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gone | advcl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 came | cc |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 came | advmod |
| 29 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 times | amod |
| 30 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 came | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seen | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 seen | cc |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 seen | aux:pass |
| 36 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 came | advcl |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 accused | mark |
| 38 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 accused | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 accused | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 accused | aux:pass |
| 41 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 42 accused | advmod |
| 42 | accused | accuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 seen | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | a whole year | week | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | the thief not said here | a horse dealer | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | arrest | past · passive | Niels | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | come | past | now; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past · passive | dealer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | accuse | past · perfect · passive | Jurgen | wrongly property | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: 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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