Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 129

On the evening before his departure, Aphtanides sat thoughtfully beside me on the slopes of the mountain.

Who acts: Aphtanides, priest · What happens: sit, depart · To what, where: slopes

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 (Aphtanides, priest), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 departure	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 departure	nmod:poss
6	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
8	Aphtanides	Aphtanides	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	thoughtfully	thoughtfully	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
11	beside	beside	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sat	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 slopes	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 slopes	det
15	slopes	slope	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mountain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mountain	det
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slopes	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Aphtanides			the slopes of the mountain	evening	beside me; thoughtfully property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location
2	depart		priest						nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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