Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 52
Here they found some charcoal and pine branches, so that they soon made a fire.
Who acts: waters · What happens: find, make · To what, where: charcoal, fire
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waters), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 charcoal | det |
| 5 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 branches | cc |
| 7 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 branches | compound |
| 8 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 charcoal | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 made | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 made | advmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | waters = water | some charcoal and pine branches | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charcoal=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | past | waters = water | a fire | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
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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