Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What One Can Invent, sentence 48

There were Northmen, from Norway, who steered westward through mist and storm to an unknown land, where, behind ice and snow, they found plants and green meadows, and bushes with blue-black grapes--sloe bushes.

Who acts: Northmen, Norway, ice · What happens: be, steer, find · To what, where: Norway, mist, plants

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What One Can Invent. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Northmen, Norway, ice), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Northmen	Northmen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 were	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Norway	punct
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 Norway	case
6	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 steered	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 steered	nsubj
9	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Norway	acl:relcl
10	westward	westward	ADV	_	9 steered	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 mist	case
12	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steered	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 storm	cc
14	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mist	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 land	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 land	det
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 land	amod
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 steered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 found	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ice	punct
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 ice	case
23	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 snow	cc
25	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ice	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ice	punct
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 land	acl:relcl
29	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 found	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 meadows	cc
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 meadows	amod
32	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 plants	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bushes	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bushes	cc
35	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 plants	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	40 grapes	case
37	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 black	amod
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 blue	punct
39	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 grapes	amod
40	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 bushes	nmod
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 bushes	punct
42	sloe	sloe	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bushes	compound
43	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 plants	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	Northmen		Norway; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	steer	past	Norway		mist and storm	to a unknown land; westward property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through mist=Destination
3	find	past	ice and snow	plants and green meadows and bushes with black grapes and sloe bushes			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Topic

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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