Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 64
Jurgen still breathed, so the fishermen carried him to the nearest house upon the sand-hills, where a smith and general dealer lived who knew something of surgery, and bound up Jurgen's wounds in a temporary way until a surgeon could be obtained from the nearest town the next day.
Who acts: Jurgen, fishermen, smith · What happens: breathe, carry, live, know, bind up, obtain · To what, where: Jurgen, nearest house, something, wounds, surgeon, nearest town
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 (Jurgen, fishermen, smith), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 breathed | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 breathed | advmod |
| 3 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 carried | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fishermen | det |
| 7 | fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 breathed | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carried | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 house | det |
| 12 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 house | amod |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 hills | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hills | det |
| 16 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hills | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 sand | punct |
| 18 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lived | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 lived | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 smith | det |
| 22 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dealer | cc |
| 24 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dealer | amod |
| 25 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 smith | conj |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 carried | conj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 knew | nsubj |
| 28 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lived | parataxis |
| 29 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 28 knew | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 surgery | case |
| 31 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 something | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bound | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bound | cc |
| 34 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 breathed | conj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 bound | compound:prt |
| 36 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Jurgen | case |
| 38 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 bound | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 way | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 way | det |
| 41 | temporary | temporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 way | amod |
| 42 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bound | obl |
| 43 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 48 obtained | mark |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 surgeon | det |
| 45 | surgeon | surgeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 obtained | aux |
| 47 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 obtained | aux:pass |
| 48 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 bound | conj |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 52 town | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 town | det |
| 51 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 52 town | amod |
| 52 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 obtained | obl |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 day | det |
| 54 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 day | amod |
| 55 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 obtained | obl:unmarked |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 breathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | past | Jurgen | still | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the fishermen | Jurgen | the nearest house | upon the sand hills | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 3 | live | past | a smith and general dealer | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | past | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | bind up | participle | Jurgen not said here | Jurgen's wounds | in a temporary way | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wound=Destination in way=Theme | |||
| 6 | obtain | could · passive | a surgeon | the nearest town | day | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from town=Source | |||
| 7 | wound | Jurgen | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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