Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 86

The sun was high in the heavens when they seated themselves under a large tree to eat their breakfast, and at the same moment an old woman came towards them.

Who acts: sun, Strangers, old woman · What happens: be, seat, eat, come · To what, where: heavens, Strangers, large tree, breakfast

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Strangers, old woman), 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	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 high	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 heavens	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 heavens	det
7	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 seated	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seated	nsubj
10	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	advcl
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 seated	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	15 tree	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tree	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seated	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 seated	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 breakfast	nmod:poss
19	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 came	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 moment	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 moment	amod
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	obl
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 high	parataxis
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 came	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sun		the heavens		high property	tree rules
2	seat	past	Strangers = stranger	Strangers = stranger	a large tree			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value
3	eat	to-infinitive	Strangers = stranger not said here	Strangers's breakfast				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
4	come	past	a old woman			moment	towards Strangers = stranger	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=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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