Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 38
They had tents and beds with them, carried by horses; and they were accompanied by more than twenty Turks, all armed with swords and muskets.
Who acts: sorrows, twenty Turks · What happens: have, carry, accompany · To what, where: tents, sorrows
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 (sorrows, twenty Turks), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beds | cc |
| 5 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tents | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beds | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tents | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 horses | case |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carried | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 accompanied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 accompanied | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accompanied | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 accompanied | aux:pass |
| 16 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Turks | case |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 20 twenty | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 more | fixed |
| 20 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 Turks | nummod |
| 21 | Turks | turk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 accompanied | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 armed | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 armed | det |
| 24 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Turks | amod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 swords | case |
| 26 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 armed | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 muskets | cc |
| 28 | muskets | musket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 swords | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sorrows = sorrow | tents and beds with beds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | participle | tents and beds with beds not said here | by horses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | accompany | past · passive | twenty Turks | sorrows = sorrow | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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