Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 27
And the third flame led him to Greenland's wretched huts, where the preacher, Hans Egede, ruled with love in every word and action.
Who acts: third flame · What happens: lead, rule · To what, where: Denmark, wretched huts, word
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third flame), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 led | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flame | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 flame | amod |
| 4 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 huts | case |
| 8 | Greenland | Greenland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 huts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Greenland | case |
| 10 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 huts | amod |
| 11 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 preacher | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 preacher | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 preacher | det |
| 15 | preacher | preacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 huts | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hans | punct |
| 17 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 preacher | appos |
| 18 | Egede | Egede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hans | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ruled | punct |
| 20 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ruled | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 word | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 word | det |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ruled | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 action | cc |
| 27 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 word | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the third flame | Denmark | Greenland's wretched huts | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hut=Destination | |||
| 2 | rule | past | the third flame not said here | every word and action | with love | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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