Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 32
One morning merchant Bronne went out to the lighthouse, which stands a little way out of Old Skjagen, not far from "Grenen."
Who acts: One morning merchant, lighthouse · What happens: go out, stand · To what, where: little way, Old Skjagen
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 (One morning merchant, lighthouse), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 merchant | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 merchant | compound |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | Bronne | Bronne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 lighthouse | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lighthouse | det |
| 9 | lighthouse | lighthouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stands | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 stands | nsubj |
| 12 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lighthouse | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stands | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 Skjagen | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Skjagen | case |
| 18 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Skjagen | amod |
| 19 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Grenen | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 Grenen | advmod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 Grenen | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 Grenen | case |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 Grenen | punct |
| 25 | Grenen | Grenen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Skjagen | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | One morning merchant | to the lighthouse; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | the lighthouse | a little way | Old Skjagen and Grenen | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme out skjagen=Destination |
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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