Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 24
The young men of the neighborhood were collecting branches and brushwood under the oak-trees.
Who acts: young men · What happens: collect · To what, where: branches, oak trees
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 (young men), 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 | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 collecting | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 neighborhood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 neighborhood | det |
| 6 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 collecting | aux |
| 8 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 collecting | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brushwood | cc |
| 11 | brushwood | brushwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 branches | conj |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trees | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 oak | punct |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 branches | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 collecting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · progressive | the young men of the neighborhood | branches and brushwood | the oak trees | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
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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