Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 125
After this a priest came through a door near the altar, and blessed us all three.
What happens: come, bless · To what, where: door, us
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 priest | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 priest | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 altar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 altar | det |
| 11 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blessed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blessed | cc |
| 14 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 blessed | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 three | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 blessed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a door | after this priest | near the altar | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bless | past | us | 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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