Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 86
The old man's wife and daughter and his servants also came to meet him with great rejoicing.
Who acts: wife · What happens: come, meet · To what, where: many
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 (wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 daughter | cc |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 servants | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 servants | nmod:poss |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wife | conj |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 came | xcomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rejoicing | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rejoicing | amod |
| 18 | rejoicing | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meet | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the old man's wife and daughter and man's servants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the old man's wife and daughter and man's servants not said here | many | with great rejoicing | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme with rejoicing=Instrument |
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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