Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 85

Every Sunday he went to church with the old people, and sat there silently, staring vacantly before him.

Who acts: Sunday · What happens: go, sit, stare · To what, where: 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 (Sunday), 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	2 Sunday	det
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	with	with	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
15	silently	silently	ADV	_	13 sat	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 staring	punct
17	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sat	advcl
18	vacantly	vacantly	ADV	_	17 staring	advmod
19	before	before	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 staring	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	every Sunday	church		with the old people	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location
2	sit	past	every Sunday not said here	there		silently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stare	gerund	every Sunday not said here		before Jurgen	vacantly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before he=Theme

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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