Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 81
In the south-west, a mile from "Grenen," lies Old Skjagen; merchant Bronne dwelt here, and this was also to be Jurgen's home for the future.
Who acts: mile, merchant, this · What happens: lie, dwell, be · To what, where: Old Skjagen, south west, 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 (mile, merchant, this), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 west | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 west | det |
| 3 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 west | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 south | punct |
| 5 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 west | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mile | det |
| 8 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Grenen | case |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Grenen | punct |
| 11 | Grenen | Grenen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mile | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Grenen | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Grenen | punct |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Skjagen | amod |
| 16 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 dwelt | punct |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dwelt | nsubj |
| 19 | Bronne | Bronne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 merchant | appos |
| 20 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lies | conj |
| 21 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 dwelt | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 home | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 home | cc |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 home | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 home | cop |
| 26 | also | also | ADV | _ | 31 home | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 home | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 home | cop |
| 29 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 home | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Jurgen | case |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dwelt | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 future | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 future | det |
| 34 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 home | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a mile from Grenen | Old Skjagen | the south west | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dwell | past | merchant | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | this | Jurgen's home | for the future | tree rules |
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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