Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 76
He is again among mankind, and tends the goats on the mountains.
Who acts: boy, mankind · What happens: be, tend · To what, where: goats, mountains
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 (boy, mankind), 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 | 5 mankind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mankind | cop |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 mankind | advmod |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 mankind | case |
| 5 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tends | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tends | cc |
| 8 | tends | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mankind | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 goats | det |
| 10 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tends | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 goats | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mankind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | boy | again | among mankind | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tend | present | mankind not said here | the goats | the mountains | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=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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