Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 54
On the afternoon before Jurgen's departure from home, and before the murder, Niels the thief, had met Martin at a beer-house in the neighbourhood of Ringkjobing.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: meet, depart · To what, where: Martin, beer house, home
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 afternoon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 afternoon | det |
| 3 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 met | obl |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 departure | case |
| 5 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 departure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Jurgen | case |
| 7 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 afternoon | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 departure | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 murder | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 murder | cc |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 murder | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 murder | det |
| 14 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 afternoon | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Niels | punct |
| 16 | Niels | Niels | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 murder | appos |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thief | det |
| 18 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Niels | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 afternoon | punct |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 met | aux |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 22 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 met | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 25 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 beer | punct |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 met | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 neighbourhood | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 neighbourhood | det |
| 30 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Ringkjobing | case |
| 32 | Ringkjobing | Ringkjobing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 neighbourhood | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | Martin | a beer house in the neighbourhood of Ringkjobing | afternoon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent martin=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | depart | Jurgen | home | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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