Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 79
At that time Old Skjagen, with the eastern and western town, extended for miles, with sand hills and arable land as far as the lighthouse near "Grenen."
What happens: extend · To what, where: eastern town
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: 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 | _ | 5 Skjagen | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Skjagen | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Old | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Skjagen | amod |
| 5 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 town | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 town | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 9 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 town | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 western | cc |
| 11 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eastern | conj |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 extended | punct |
| 14 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 town | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 miles | case |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 extended | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hills | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hills | case |
| 19 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hills | compound |
| 20 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 extended | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 land | cc |
| 22 | arable | arable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 land | amod |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hills | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 far | advmod |
| 25 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 extended | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 lighthouse | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lighthouse | det |
| 28 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 far | obl |
| 29 | near | near | ADP | _ | 31 Grenen | case |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 Grenen | punct |
| 31 | Grenen | Grenen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 lighthouse | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 town | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 town | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extend | participle | the eastern town not said here | for miles goal; with sand hills and arable land; far property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for mile=Goal |
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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