Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 75
Up towards Skjagen they went, through the land of the Wendels, whence the men with long beards (the Longobardi or Lombards) had emigrated in the reign of King Snio, when all the children and old people were to have been killed, till the noble Dame Gambaruk proposed that the young people should emigrate.
Who acts: cloud, men, noble Dame Gambaruk, young people · What happens: go, emigrate, kill, propose · To what, where: land, reign, children
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 (cloud, men, noble Dame Gambaruk, young people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 Skjagen | case |
| 3 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Up | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 land | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Wendels | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wendels | det |
| 12 | Wendels | Wendel | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 land | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 emigrated | punct |
| 14 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 emigrated | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 emigrated | nsubj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 beards | case |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beards | amod |
| 19 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 men | nmod |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Longobardi | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Longobardi | det |
| 22 | Longobardi | Longobardi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 beards | appos |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 Lombards | cc |
| 24 | Lombards | Lombards | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Longobardi | conj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 Longobardi | punct |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 emigrated | aux |
| 27 | emigrated | emigrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 Wendels | acl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 reign | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 reign | det |
| 30 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 emigrated | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 King | case |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 reign | nmod |
| 33 | Snio | Snio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 King | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 killed | punct |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 killed | advmod |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 children | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 children | det |
| 38 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 people | cc |
| 40 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 people | amod |
| 41 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 children | conj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 killed | aux:pass |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 killed | mark |
| 44 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 killed | aux |
| 45 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 killed | aux:pass |
| 46 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 proposed | punct |
| 48 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 53 proposed | mark |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Gambaruk | det |
| 50 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Gambaruk | amod |
| 51 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Gambaruk | compound |
| 52 | Gambaruk | Gambaruk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 proposed | nsubj |
| 53 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 54 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 59 emigrate | mark |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 people | det |
| 56 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 people | amod |
| 57 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 emigrate | nsubj |
| 58 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 emigrate | aux |
| 59 | emigrate | emigrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 53 proposed | ccomp |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cloud | the land of the Wendels | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | emigrate | past · perfect | the men with long beards | the reign of King | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | all children and old people | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | propose | past | the noble Dame Gambaruk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | emigrate | should | the young people | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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