Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 13
Autumn came, and brought rain and snow with it; the water rose up right into the town of Skjagen, the sand could not suck it all in, one had to wade through it or go by boat.
Who acts: Autumn, water, sand, one · What happens: come, bring, rise up, not suck, have, wade · To what, where: rain, town, water
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 (Autumn, water, sand, one), 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 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 snow | cc |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rain | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 rose | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | nsubj |
| 14 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 rose | advmod |
| 16 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 town | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rose | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Skjagen | case |
| 21 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 town | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 suck | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sand | det |
| 24 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 suck | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 suck | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 suck | advmod |
| 27 | suck | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rose | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 suck | obj |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 it | det |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 27 suck | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 wade | mark |
| 35 | wade | wade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 had | xcomp |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 wade | obl |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 go | cc |
| 39 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wade | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 boat | case |
| 41 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 go | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Autumn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | Autumn not said here | rain and snow | with snow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme | |||
| 3 | rise up | past | the water | the town of Skjagen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | not suck | could | the sand | water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wade | to-infinitive | one not said here | water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | one not said here | by boat | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by boat=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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