Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 82
I thought of our cool mountain-home, and the fresh water that flowed near it; my mother, too, longed for if, and one evening we wandered towards home.
Who acts: I, fresh water, mother, we · What happens: think, flow, long, wander · To what, where: home
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 (I, fresh water, mother, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 home | amod |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mountain | punct |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 water | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 water | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 home | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 flowed | nsubj |
| 15 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 water | acl:relcl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flowed | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 mother | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 longed | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 too | punct |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 mother | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 longed | punct |
| 24 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 longed | obl |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 for | fixed |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wandered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wandered | cc |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 evening | nummod |
| 30 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 wandered | nsubj |
| 32 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 longed | conj |
| 33 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 34 home | case |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wandered | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | of our cool mountain home and the fresh water | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flow | past | the fresh water | home | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location | ||||
| 3 | long | past | my mother | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | wander | past | we | home | evening | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards home=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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