Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 88
They led him out of church; he told those standing round him that he was well, and had never been ill; he, who had been so grievously afflicted, the outcast, thrown upon the world, could not remember his sufferings.
Who acts: tears, Jurgen · What happens: lead, tell, stand, be, not be, afflict · To what, where: Jurgen, church, those, world, sufferings · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tears, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 church | case |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | parataxis |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 told | obj |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 told | advcl |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 standing | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 well | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 well | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 well | cop |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 standing | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ill | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ill | cc |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ill | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 ill | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 ill | cop |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 told | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 afflicted | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 afflicted | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 afflicted | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 afflicted | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 afflicted | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 afflicted | aux:pass |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 afflicted | advmod |
| 31 | grievously | grievously | ADV | _ | 32 afflicted | advmod |
| 32 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 led | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 outcast | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 outcast | det |
| 35 | outcast | outcast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 afflicted | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thrown | punct |
| 37 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 outcast | conj |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 world | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 world | det |
| 40 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thrown | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 remember | punct |
| 42 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 remember | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 remember | advmod |
| 44 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 thrown | advcl |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 46 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 remember | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | tears = tear | Jurgen | church | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme out church=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Jurgen | those | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | Jurgen not said here | round Jurgen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Jurgen | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | past · perfect | Jurgen not said here | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | afflict | past · perfect · passive | Jurgen | grievously property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | throw | participle | the world | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon world=Destination | |||||
| 8 | not remember | could | Jurgen's sufferings | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent suffering=Theme | |||||
| 9 | suffer | Jurgen | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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