Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 26
They are a colony from the north, where their ancestors still dwell, and are called Swedes."
Who acts: people, ancestors, colony · What happens: be, dwell, call · To what, where: colony, north, Swedes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, ancestors, colony), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 colony | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 colony | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 colony | det |
| 4 | colony | colony | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 north | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 colony | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwell | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 dwell | advmod |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dwell | nsubj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 dwell | advmod |
| 13 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 north | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 colony | acl |
| 18 | Swedes | swede | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 called | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 colony | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 colony | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | people | a colony | the north | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dwell | present | people's ancestors | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | a colony not said here | Swedes | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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