Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 61
They quickly went away and came before the beds of the criminals; these unfortunate people slept side by side, in long rows.
Who acts: dreams, unfortunate people · What happens: go away, come, sleep · To what, where: beds, side, long rows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dreams, unfortunate people), 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 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 beds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beds | det |
| 9 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 criminals | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 criminals | det |
| 12 | criminals | criminal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 beds | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 slept | punct |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 people | det |
| 15 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slept | nsubj |
| 17 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slept | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slept | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rows | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 rows | case |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rows | amod |
| 24 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 slept | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | dreams = dream | away, quickly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | dreams = dream not said here | the beds of the criminals | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | this unfortunate people | side | long rows | by side | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent side=Value in row=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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