Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 95
Jurgen's heart was still soft--it was young, and therefore it was a good thing that Miss Clara was going in three weeks' time to Christiansand in Norway, in her father's ship, to visit an aunt and to stay there the whole winter.
Who acts: heart, goblet, good thing · What happens: be, go, visit, stay · To what, where: good thing, ship, aunt
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 (heart, goblet, good thing), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jurgen | case |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soft | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 soft | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 soft | advmod |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 young | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 young | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 young | cop |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 soft | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thing | cc |
| 13 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 18 thing | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thing | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thing | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 soft | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 going | nsubj |
| 20 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 going | nsubj |
| 21 | Clara | Clara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Miss | flat |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 thing | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 weeks | nummod |
| 26 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 time | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 26 weeks | case |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Christiansand | case |
| 30 | Christiansand | Christiansand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 time | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 Norway | case |
| 32 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Christiansand | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ship | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 ship | case |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ship | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 father | case |
| 38 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 going | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 visit | punct |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 visit | mark |
| 41 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 soft | parataxis |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 aunt | det |
| 43 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 visit | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 stay | cc |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 stay | mark |
| 46 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 41 visit | conj |
| 47 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 stay | advmod |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 winter | det |
| 49 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 winter | amod |
| 50 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 soft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Jurgen's heart | still | soft property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | goblet | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | goblet | a good thing | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | a good thing | Miss's father's ship | time | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ship=Location | |||
| 5 | visit | to-infinitive | a aunt | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Co-Agent | |||||
| 6 | stay | to-infinitive | there | winter | vn exist-47.1 «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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