Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 85

They visit Chillon, and observe on the lake the little island with the three acacias, and then read in their guide-book the story of the bridal pair who, in the year 1856, rowed over to it.

Who acts: books, bridal pair · What happens: visit, observe, read, row over · To what, where: Chillon, lake, story, guide book, pair

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (books, bridal pair), 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 visit	nsubj
2	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Chillon	Chillon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 visit	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 observe	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 observe	cc
6	observe	observe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 visit	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 observe	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 island	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 island	amod
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lake	appos
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 acacias	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 acacias	det
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 acacias	nummod
16	acacias	acacia	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 island	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 read	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 read	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 read	advmod
20	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 visit	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 book	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 book	nmod:poss
23	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 book	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 guide	punct
25	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 pair	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 pair	det
30	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pair	amod
31	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 story	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 rowed	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rowed	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 year	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 year	det
36	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rowed	obl
37	1856	1856	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 year	flat
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 year	punct
39	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 pair	acl:relcl
40	over	over	ADP	_	39 rowed	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 rowed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 visit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	visit	present	books = book	Chillon			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chillon=Co-Agent
2	observe	infinitive	books = book not said here		the lake		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	read	infinitive	books = book not said here	the story of the bridal pair	books's guide book	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic
4	row over	past	the bridal pair		pair	year	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to it=Trajectory

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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