Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 113
They are already ploughing the fields again; more and more the people wish for gain.
Who acts: blessings, people · What happens: plough, wish · To what, where: fields
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 (blessings, people), 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 | 4 ploughing | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ploughing | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 ploughing | advmod |
| 4 | ploughing | plough | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fields | det |
| 6 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ploughing | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 ploughing | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 more | punct |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 ploughing | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wish | cc |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 wish | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 more | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 gain | case |
| 16 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wish | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ploughing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plough | present · progressive | blessings = blessing | the fields | again | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location more=Result | |||
| 2 | wish | present | the people | for gain | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for gain=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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