Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 86
They read that the two were missing till the next morning, when some people on the shore heard the despairing cries of the bride, and went to her assistance, and by her were told of the bridegroom's fate.
Who acts: books, two, people, bride, bridegroom · What happens: read, be, hear, despair, go, tell · To what, where: despairing cries, assistance · Speech: someone speaks here
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, two, people, bride), 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 read | nsubj |
| 2 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 missing | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 missing | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 missing | cop |
| 7 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 read | ccomp |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morning | amod |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 missing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 heard | advmod |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 shore | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 shore | det |
| 18 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cries | det |
| 21 | despairing | despair | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 cries | amod |
| 22 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heard | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bride | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bride | det |
| 25 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cries | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 went | cc |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 read | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 assistance | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 31 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 told | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 told | cc |
| 34 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 37 told | mark |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 told | nmod:poss |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 told | aux:pass |
| 37 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 went | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 fate | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bridegroom | det |
| 40 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fate | nmod:poss |
| 41 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 40 bridegroom | case |
| 42 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 told | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | books = book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the two | morning | missing property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hear | past | some people on the shore | the despairing cries of the bride | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | despair | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | go | past | bride's assistance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | of the bridegroom's fate | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | cry | the bride | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | assist | bride | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | fate | the bridegroom | nom fate «event 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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