Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 93
Yes, poor child--a child still, yet more than thirty years old, for Jurgen had arrived at this age in Old Skjagen.
Who acts: Jurgen · What happens: arrive · To what, where: age
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), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 15 old | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 child | amod |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 old | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 child | appos |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 child | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 15 old | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 13 thirty | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 more | fixed |
| 13 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 old | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arrived | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 arrived | mark |
| 18 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 arrived | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arrived | aux |
| 20 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 old | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 age | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 age | det |
| 23 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrived | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 Skjagen | case |
| 25 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Skjagen | amod |
| 26 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 age | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past · perfect | Jurgen | at this age in Old Skjagen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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