Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 32
But there they remained; for pork and mead are good things.
Who acts: men, pork · What happens: remain, be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, pork), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 remained | expl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 things | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 7 | pork | pork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 things | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mead | cc |
| 9 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pork | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | cop |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remained | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | men = man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | pork and mead | for good things | tree rules |
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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