Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 37
One day there came to our hut Franks, men from a far country, whose dress was different to ours.
Who acts: dress · What happens: come, be · To what, where: far country, ours
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 (dress), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Franks | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Franks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Franks | compound |
| 8 | Franks | frank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 men | punct |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Franks | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 13 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | amod |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 different | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 dress | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 different | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 different | cop |
| 19 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 country | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ours | case |
| 21 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 different | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a far country; there | day | to our hut Franks and men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to frank=Initial_Location from country=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | dress | ours | different property | 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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