Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 101
These things had been brought away from the cave as curiosities by one of the huntsmen.
What happens: bring away · To what, where: things, cave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 curiosities | case |
| 11 | curiosities | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cave | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brought | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 huntsmen | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 huntsmen | det |
| 16 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring away | past · perfect · passive | this things | the cave as curiosities | by one of the huntsmen; away property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from cave=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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