Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 28
And this is what happened with these shields, when grandpapa came to the town.
Who acts: this, grandpapa · What happens: be, happen, come · To what, where: town
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, grandpapa), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 what | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 shields | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 shields | det |
| 8 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 happened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 came | advmod |
| 11 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | with this shields | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | grandpapa | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location |
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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