Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 13
They received him kindly, and brought him many greetings from their friends at Interlachen.
Who acts: miller · What happens: receive, bring · To what, where: Rudy, many greetings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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 | 2 received | nsubj |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | obj |
| 4 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 2 received | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 received | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 greetings | amod |
| 10 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 friends | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Interlachen | case |
| 15 | Interlachen | Interlachen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 friends | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | miller | Rudy | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past | miller not said here | many greetings | Rudy | from miller's friends at Interlachen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination greeting=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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