Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 13
She reached the entrance of the village, and saw the young laboring men and maidens standing together chatting, and her own mother amongst them.
Who acts: child, young laboring men · What happens: reach, see, labor, stand together, chat · To what, where: entrance, young laboring men
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, young laboring men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 entrance | det |
| 4 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entrance | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 young | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 13 | laboring | labor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 maidens | cc |
| 16 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 men | conj |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 men | acl |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 standing | advmod |
| 19 | chatting | chat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 standing | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mother | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mother | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mother | amod |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obl |
| 25 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | child | the entrance of the village | child's own mother amongst maidens obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | child not said here | young laboring men and maidens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | labor | gerund | vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stand together | gerund | young laboring men and maidens not said here | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | chat speech: other | gerund | young laboring men and maidens not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «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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