Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 89
Three minutes ago we were speaking together yonder in the verandah."
Who acts: we · What happens: speak · To what, where: verandah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 speaking | advmod |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 speaking | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaking | aux |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 speaking | advmod |
| 8 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 11 verandah | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 verandah | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 verandah | det |
| 11 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 verandah | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 verandah | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | we | the verandah | ago, together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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