Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 146
James and Adolphus then fired their crossbows over the grave, as they had neither guns nor cannons.
Who acts: James · What happens: fire, have · To what, where: crossbows, grave, guns
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (James), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:5341): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fired | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Adolphus | cc |
| 3 | Adolphus | Adolphus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 James | conj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 fired | advmod |
| 5 | fired | fire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 crossbows | nmod:poss |
| 7 | crossbows | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fired | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grave | det |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fired | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fired | advcl |
| 15 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 guns | cc:preconj |
| 16 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 cannons | cc |
| 18 | cannons | cannon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 guns | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | past | James and Adolphus | James's crossbows | the grave | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent crossbow=Theme over grave=Destination | ||
| 2 | have | past | James | guns nor cannons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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