Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 9
He remained behind, and made himself useful on the farm and at the fishery.
Who acts: Skjagen · What happens: remain, make · To what, where: Skjagen, farm
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 (Skjagen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 2 remained | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 made | cc |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remained | conj |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 farm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farm | det |
| 11 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fishery | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 fishery | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fishery | det |
| 15 | fishery | fishery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 farm | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Skjagen | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Skjagen not said here | Skjagen | the farm and the fishery | useful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
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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