Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 12
Every Sunday Jurgen went to church; and when his eyes rested on the picture of the Virgin Mary over the altar as he sat there, they often glided away to the spot where they had knelt side by side.
Who acts: Sunday Jurgen, eyes, Jurgen · What happens: go, rest, sit, glide away, kneel · To what, where: church, picture, spot, side
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 (Sunday Jurgen, eyes, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Jurgen | det |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Jurgen | compound |
| 3 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 rested | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rested | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 rested | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rested | nsubj |
| 12 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 picture | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 picture | det |
| 15 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rested | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Mary | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mary | det |
| 18 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mary | compound |
| 19 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 picture | nmod |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 altar | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 altar | det |
| 22 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rested | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 sat | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sat | nsubj |
| 25 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rested | advcl |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 sat | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 glided | punct |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 glided | nsubj |
| 29 | often | often | ADV | _ | 30 glided | advmod |
| 30 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 glided | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 spot | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 spot | det |
| 34 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 glided | obl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 knelt | advmod |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 knelt | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 knelt | aux |
| 38 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 spot | acl:relcl |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knelt | obj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 side | case |
| 41 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 knelt | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | every Sunday Jurgen | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | rest | past | Jurgen's eyes | the picture of the Virgin Mary | over the altar | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on picture=Location | |||
| 3 | sit | past | Jurgen | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | glide away | past | eyes = eye | the spot | away, often property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | |||
| 5 | kneel | past · perfect | eyes = eye | side | by side | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Topic |
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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