Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 84
Not a single herdsman did we meet, not a solitary hut did we pass; everything appeared lonely and deserted--only a shooting star showed that in the heavens there was yet life.
Who acts: single herdsman, solitary hut, everything, shooting star · What happens: not meet, not pass, appear, desert, show
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 (single herdsman, solitary hut, everything, shooting star), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 meet | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 herdsman | det |
| 3 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 herdsman | amod |
| 4 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 meet | aux |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pass | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 pass | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 11 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hut | amod |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pass | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pass | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 pass | nsubj |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 meet | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 appeared | punct |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 appeared | nsubj |
| 18 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 meet | parataxis |
| 19 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 appeared | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 deserted | cc |
| 21 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lonely | conj |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 showed | punct |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 star | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 star | det |
| 25 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 star | compound |
| 26 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 showed | nsubj |
| 27 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 appeared | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 heavens | mark |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 heavens | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 heavens | det |
| 31 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 showed | ccomp |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 heavens | acl:relcl |
| 34 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 35 life | cc |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heavens | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | past · do-support | a single herdsman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not pass | past · do-support | a solitary hut | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | everything | lonely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | desert | participle | everything not said here | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | past | a shooting star | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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