Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 47
Two nights after this, other men, armed with knives and muskets, came into our tent.
Who acts: Two nights · What happens: come · To what, where: tent
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 (Two nights), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 nights | nummod |
| 2 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 came | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 nights | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 nights | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 armed | punct |
| 9 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 knives | case |
| 11 | knives | knife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 armed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 muskets | cc |
| 13 | muskets | musket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 knives | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nights | punct |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 tent | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tent | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Two nights after this and other men | our tent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial_Location |
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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