Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 30

They were come to take a last farewell look of their mother.

Who acts: husband · What happens: come, take · To what, where: last farewell look

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	3 come	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 take	mark
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 look	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	amod
8	farewell	farewell	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	amod
9	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 mother	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	husband						tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	husband not said here	a last farewell look of husband's mother					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=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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