Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 90
They had come to see the Exhibition, and now contemplated it from their fresh or salt-water position.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: come, see, contemplate · To what, where: Exhibition, fresh
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Exhibition | det |
| 7 | Exhibition | exhibition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 contemplated | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 contemplated | cc |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 contemplated | advmod |
| 11 | contemplated | contemplate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 contemplated | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 fresh | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fresh | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 contemplated | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 position | cc |
| 17 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 position | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 salt | punct |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 position | compound |
| 20 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fresh | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | eyes = eye | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | the Exhibition | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer exhibition=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | contemplate | past | eyes = eye not said here | Exhibition | eyes's fresh or salt water position | now | 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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