Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 15
Ib and Christina agreed together in everything; they divided their bread and berries when they were hungry; they were partners in digging their little gardens; they ran, and crept, and played about everywhere.
Who acts: Ib, Jans · What happens: agree, divide, be, dig, run, creep · To what, where: everything, bread, partners, little gardens
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 (Ib, Jans), 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 | Ib | Ib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Christina | cc |
| 3 | Christina | Christina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ib | conj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 everything | case |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 agreed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 divided | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 divided | nsubj |
| 10 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bread | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 divided | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 berries | cc |
| 14 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bread | conj |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 hungry | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hungry | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hungry | cop |
| 18 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 divided | advcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 partners | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 partners | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 partners | cop |
| 22 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 divided | obl |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 digging | mark |
| 24 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 divided | advcl |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 gardens | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 gardens | amod |
| 27 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 digging | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ran | nsubj |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 crept | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 crept | cc |
| 33 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ran | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 played | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 played | cc |
| 36 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 crept | conj |
| 37 | about | about | ADV | _ | 38 everywhere | advmod |
| 38 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 36 played | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Ib and Christina | everything | together property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | divide | past | Jans = jan | Jans's bread and berries | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Jans = jan | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Jans = jan | partners | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dig | gerund | Jans = jan not said here | Jans's little gardens | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent garden=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run | past | Jans = jan | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | creep | past | Jans = jan not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | play about | past | Jans = jan not said here | everywhere property | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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