Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 63
On our arrival, we entered a church, in which there were beautiful pictures in golden frames.
Who acts: we, beautiful pictures, our · What happens: enter, be, arrive · To what, where: church, arrival
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 (we, beautiful pictures, our), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 arrival | case |
| 2 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 3 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrival | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 church | det |
| 8 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 were | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 were | obl |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 were | expl |
| 13 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pictures | amod |
| 15 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 were | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 frames | case |
| 17 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 frames | amod |
| 18 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pictures | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | we | a church | our arrival | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination | |||
| 2 | be | past | beautiful pictures in golden frames | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | arrive | our | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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