Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 44

One of the Frankish gentlemen made me stand in front of a rock, and drew us both as we stood there, so that we looked like one creature.

Who acts: One, me, we · What happens: make, stand, draw, look · To what, where: me, front, us

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 (One, me, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:2538): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 made	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 gentlemen	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gentlemen	det
4	Frankish	Frankish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gentlemen	amod
5	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 rock	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rock	det
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 front	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drew	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drew	cc
16	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
17	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 drew	obj
18	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 us	det
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 stood	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 stood	nsubj
21	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	advcl
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 stood	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
24	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 looked	mark
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 so	fixed
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 looked	nsubj
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 drew	advcl
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 creature	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 creature	nummod
30	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looked	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past	One of the Frankish gentlemen	me			tree rules
2	stand	infinitive	me not said here		front of a rock		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location
3	draw	past	One of the Frankish gentlemen not said here	us			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	stand	past	we		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look	past	we			like one creature	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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