Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 162
He searched, and found a large golden armlet of superior workmanship, and it was evident that the plough had disturbed a Hun's grave.
Who acts: sun, plough · What happens: search, find, be, disturb · To what, where: large golden armlet, plough
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 (sun, plough), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 searched | parataxis |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 armlet | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 armlet | amod |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 armlet | amod |
| 9 | armlet | armlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 workmanship | case |
| 11 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 workmanship | amod |
| 12 | workmanship | workmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 armlet | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 evident | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 evident | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 evident | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 evident | cop |
| 17 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 disturbed | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plough | det |
| 20 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 disturbed | aux |
| 22 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 evident | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Hun | det |
| 24 | Hun | Hun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 grave | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Hun | case |
| 26 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disturbed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past | sun | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | a large golden armlet of superior workmanship | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armlet=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | plough | evident property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | disturb | past · perfect · passive | the plough | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer grave=Result |
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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