Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 24
Jurgen could not be found anywhere in the town of Skjagen, nor on the dunes, though they searched for him everywhere.
Who acts: dunes · What happens: not find, search · To what, where: Jurgen, town
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 (dunes), 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 | Jurgen | Jurgen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 found | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 found | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Skjagen | case |
| 11 | Skjagen | Skjagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 town | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dunes | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 dunes | cc |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 dunes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dunes | det |
| 16 | dunes | dune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 town | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 searched | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 searched | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 searched | nsubj |
| 20 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 searched | obl |
| 23 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 searched | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | could · passive | Jurgen | the town of Skjagen nor the dunes | anywhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | search | past | dunes = dune | for Jurgen; everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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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