Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 142
On the journey, Christina met her father at one of the villages through which they passed, and here he took leave of her.
Who acts: Christina, banns, father · What happens: meet, pass, take · To what, where: father, journey, villages, leave
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christina, banns, father), 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 journey | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 journey | det |
| 3 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 journey | punct |
| 5 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 met | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 villages | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 villages | det |
| 13 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 passed | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 villages | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 took | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 met | conj |
| 23 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leave | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Christina | Christina's father | the journey | at one of the villages | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | pass | past | banns = bann | the villages | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through which=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | father | leave of Christina | here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme |
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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