Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 160

These were only two; here there were three, and their father with them also.

Who acts: two · What happens: be · To what, where: three

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two), 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	9 three	det
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 three	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 three	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 were	punct
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 were	advmod
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 three	cop
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 father	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 father	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 three	appos
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod
16	also	also	ADV	_	13 father	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 three	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	two	this three					tree rules

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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