Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 50

My sister Anastasia sat on the knee of one of them; and when they were gone, she had not three, but two silver coins in her hair--one had disappeared.

Who acts: sister, Albanians · What happens: sit, be, disappear · To what, where: knee, two silver coins

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 (sister, Albanians), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
3	Anastasia	Anastasia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sister	appos
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 knee	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knee	det
7	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 knee	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gone	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 gone	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gone	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gone	cop
17	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 three	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 three	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 three	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 three	advmod
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 gone	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 disappeared	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 disappeared	cc
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 coins	nummod
26	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coins	amod
27	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 disappeared	nsubj:pass
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 hair	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hair	nmod:poss
30	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coins	nmod
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 disappeared	punct
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 disappeared	nsubj:pass
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 disappeared	aux
34	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	My sister		the knee of one of Albanians		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on knee=Location
2	is	past	Albanians = albanian			three obl; gone property	tree rules
3	disappear	past · perfect · passive		two silver coins in sister's hair			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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