Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 19
The next day was Sunday, and the congregation and their pastor went to the church.
Who acts: next day, congregation · What happens: be, go · To what, where: Sunday
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 (next day, congregation), 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 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sunday | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Sunday | cop |
| 5 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 congregation | det |
| 9 | congregation | congregation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pastor | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pastor | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pastor | pastor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 congregation | conj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Sunday | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 church | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 church | det |
| 16 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sunday | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the next day | Sunday | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the congregation and storm's pastor | Sunday not said here | to the church | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sunday=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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