Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 104
The sand was banked up the walls, half covering the windows, but it had been cleared away in front of the door, and the entrance was free and easy to open, so Jurgen went into the church.
Who acts: walls, entrance, Jurgen · What happens: bank up, cover, clear away, be, open, go · To what, where: sand, windows, front, church
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 (walls, entrance, Jurgen), 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 | 2 sand | det |
| 2 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 banked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 banked | aux:pass |
| 4 | banked | bank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 banked | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 banked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 half | punct |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 walls | conj |
| 10 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 walls | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 windows | det |
| 12 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 covering | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cleared | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 cleared | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cleared | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cleared | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 cleared | aux:pass |
| 18 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 banked | parataxis |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 cleared | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 front | case |
| 21 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cleared | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 door | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 front | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 free | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 free | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 entrance | det |
| 28 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 free | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 free | cop |
| 30 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 banked | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 easy | cc |
| 32 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 free | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 open | mark |
| 34 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 easy | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 went | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 went | advmod |
| 37 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 went | nsubj |
| 38 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 banked | parataxis |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 church | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 church | det |
| 41 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 went | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 banked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bank up | past · passive | the sand | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover | gerund | the walls and half not said here | the windows | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Destination | ||||
| 3 | clear away | past · perfect · passive | sand | front of the door | away property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source | |||
| 4 | is | past | the entrance | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the entrance not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | open | to-infinitive | the entrance not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | go | past | Jurgen | the church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into church=Initial_Location |
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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