Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 78
At last they arrived at "Vendilskaga," as Skjagen is called in old Norwegian and Icelandic writings.
Who acts: flowers, Vendilskaga · What happens: arrive, call · To what, where: last, Skjagen, old Norwegian writings · 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 (flowers, Vendilskaga), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrived | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Vendilskaga | case |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Vendilskaga | punct |
| 7 | Vendilskaga | Vendilskaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Vendilskaga | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Vendilskaga | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 11 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Vendilskaga | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 writings | case |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 writings | amod |
| 16 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 writings | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Icelandic | cc |
| 18 | Icelandic | icelandic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Norwegian | conj |
| 19 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | flowers = flower | last | at Vendilskaga | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | Vendilskaga not said here | Skjagen | old Norwegian writings | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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