Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 143
When country people go far from home, they often meet with those they know, and improve their acquaintance.
Who acts: country people, people · What happens: go, meet, know, improve, acquaint · To what, where: home, acquaintance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country people, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 meet | advcl |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 meet | nsubj |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 11 meet | advmod |
| 11 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 meet | obl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 improve | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 improve | cc |
| 18 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 meet | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 acquaintance | nmod:poss |
| 20 | acquaintance | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 improve | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | country people | home | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | meet | present | people | with those; often property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with that=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | present | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | improve | infinitive | people not said here | people's acquaintance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Patient | ||||
| 5 | acquaint | people | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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