Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 7
There they stood silent and motionless, till at last, as if by tacit consent, they each sacrificed a leg and buried it in the deep snow.
Who acts: persons · What happens: stand, sacrifice, bury · To what, where: leg, deep snow
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 (persons), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 motionless | cc |
| 6 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 silent | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 last | punct |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 consent | punct |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 consent | case |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 consent | mark |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 consent | case |
| 15 | tacit | tacit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 consent | amod |
| 16 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sacrificed | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 20 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 leg | det |
| 22 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sacrificed | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 buried | cc |
| 24 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 buried | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 snow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snow | det |
| 28 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 snow | amod |
| 29 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 buried | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | persons = person | there | as tacit consent; silent property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sacrifice | past | persons = person | a leg | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bury | past | persons = person not said here | leg | the deep snow | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in snow=Destination |
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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