Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 23
So they sung a hymn in the open air, and went home again.
Who acts: room · What happens: sing, go · To what, where: hymn, open air
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sung | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sung | nsubj |
| 3 | sung | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hymn | det |
| 5 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sung | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 air | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 air | amod |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sung | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sung | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | room | a hymn | the open air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | room not said here | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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