Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 63
They had entered the Canton Valais, and found themselves on the ridge of the hills which can be seen from Grindelwald; but he was still far from his new home.
Who acts: asunder, Grindelwald · What happens: enter, find, see, be · To what, where: Canton Valais, asunder, ridge, hills, Grindelwald, new home
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 (asunder, Grindelwald), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4055): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | aux |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Valais | det |
| 5 | Canton | Canton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Valais | compound |
| 6 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ridge | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ridge | det |
| 13 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hills | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hills | det |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ridge | nmod |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hills | acl:relcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Grindelwald | case |
| 22 | Grindelwald | Grindelwald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 far | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 far | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 far | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 far | cop |
| 27 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 far | advmod |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 entered | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 home | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 home | nmod:poss |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 home | amod |
| 32 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 far | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past · perfect | asunder | the Canton Valais | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme valais=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | past | asunder not said here | asunder | the ridge of the hills | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic | |||
| 3 | see | can · passive | the hills | Grindelwald | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Grindelwald | Grindelwald's new home | still | far property | tree rules |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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