Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 10

He went out fishing, and in those days fish were more plentiful and larger than they are now.

Who acts: Skjagen, fish · What happens: go out, be · To what, where: fishing

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skjagen, fish), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 plentiful	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 plentiful	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 days	det
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 plentiful	obl
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 plentiful	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 plentiful	cop
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 plentiful	advmod
13	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 larger	cc
15	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 plentiful	conj
16	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 are	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 are	nsubj
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 larger	advcl
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 are	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	Skjagen	fishing			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	fish		day	plentiful property	tree rules
3	be		fish not said here				tree rules
4	does	present	fish		now		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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