Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 43
When they departed, I accompanied them for some distance, carrying my little sister Anastasia, wrapped in a goat-skin, on my back.
Who acts: Turks, I · What happens: depart, accompany, carry, wrap · To what, where: Turks, little sister, back, goat skin
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 (Turks, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 departed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 departed | nsubj |
| 3 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 accompanied | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 departed | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 accompanied | nsubj |
| 6 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 accompanied | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 distance | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 distance | det |
| 10 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accompanied | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 accompanied | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sister | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sister | amod |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 16 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sister | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrapped | punct |
| 18 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 sister | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 skin | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 skin | det |
| 21 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 skin | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 goat | punct |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wrapped | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 back | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 back | nmod:poss |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | Turks = turk | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | accompany | past | I | Turks = turk | for some distance | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | I not said here | my little sister | my back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme | |||
| 4 | wrap | participle | my little sister not said here | a goat skin | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in skin=Destination |
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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