Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 8
They both went up to the altar where they had knelt before, and the priest joined their hands and united them for life.
Who acts: parents, priest · What happens: go up, kneel, join, unite · To what, where: hands, parents
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 (parents, priest), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 altar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 altar | det |
| 7 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 knelt | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knelt | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 knelt | aux |
| 11 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 altar | acl:relcl |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 knelt | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 joined | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 joined | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 priest | det |
| 16 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 joined | nsubj |
| 17 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 joined | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 united | cc |
| 21 | united | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 united | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 united | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | parents = parent | to the altar | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | kneel | past · perfect | parents = parent | before property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | join | past | the priest | parents's hands | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | unite | past | parents = parent not said here | parents = parent | for life | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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