Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 131
We spoke of the sorrows of Greece, and of the men of the country who could be trusted.
Who acts: We, Greece · What happens: speak, trust, sorrow · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Greece), 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 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sorrows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sorrows | det |
| 5 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Greece | case |
| 7 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sorrows | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 men | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 men | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spoke | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 men | nmod |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 trusted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 trusted | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 trusted | aux:pass |
| 19 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 country | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | We | of the sorrows of Greece; of the men of the country | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | trust | could · passive | the country | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sorrow | Greece | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=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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