Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 11
They searched for food in the path which had been swept, but there was very little for them, and they were terribly cold. "
Who acts: sparrows · What happens: search, sweep, be · To what, where: path
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrows), 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 | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 food | case |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 searched | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 path | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 searched | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 swept | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 swept | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 swept | aux:pass |
| 11 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 path | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 was | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 little | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 little | advmod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 searched | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 little | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cold | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cold | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cold | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cold | cop |
| 24 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 25 cold | advmod |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 searched | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 cold | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | sparrows = sparrow | the path | for food | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme in path=Location | |||
| 2 | sweep | past · perfect · passive | the path | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | is | past | for sparrows = sparrow; little property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | past | sparrows = sparrow | cold, terribly property | 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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