Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 13
The young couple went on board, accompanied by the whole congregation, for there was room and enjoyment for them all.
Who acts: young couple, room · What happens: go, accompany, be · To what, where: board
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young couple, room), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 board | case |
| 6 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 accompanied | punct |
| 8 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 congregation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 congregation | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 congregation | amod |
| 12 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accompanied | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 was | mark |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 accompanied | parataxis |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enjoyment | cc |
| 19 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 room | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 room | nmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the young couple | board | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location | ||||
| 2 | accompany | participle | by the whole congregation | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by congregation=Destination | |||||
| 3 | be | past | room for silk and enjoyment | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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