Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 37
Children and old men sat upon the bench, and looked at the green tree.
Who acts: Children · What happens: sit, look · To what, where: bench
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 men | cc |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Children | conj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 bench | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bench | det |
| 8 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tree | amod |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Children and old men | the bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bench=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | past | Children and old men not said here | at the green tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=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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