Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 95
Merchant Bronne and his wife now rested with their children under the white sand.
What happens: rest · To what, where: Merchant, white sand
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: 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 | Merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Bronne | Bronne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Merchant | appos |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Merchant | conj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 rested | advmod |
| 7 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rested | obl |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 sand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sand | det |
| 13 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sand | amod |
| 14 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rested | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | participle · passive | Merchant and Merchant's wife | the white sand | now | with relatives's children | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme under sand=Location |
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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