Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 115
We knelt down together on the altar steps, and Anastasia drew near and stood beside us.
Who acts: We, Anastasia · What happens: kneel down, draw, stand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Anastasia), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 knelt | advmod |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 knelt | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 steps | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 steps | det |
| 7 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steps | compound |
| 8 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 knelt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 11 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knelt | parataxis |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 drew | conj |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel down | past | We | on the altar steps; down, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | Anastasia | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Anastasia not said here | beside us | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside we=Location |
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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