Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 187
Why, one morning there came a quantity of people and set to work in the loft.
What happens: come, set, work · To what, where: quantity
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 morning | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 quantity | det |
| 8 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 quantity | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 loft | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 loft | det |
| 17 | loft | loft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a quantity of people | morning | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quantity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | in the loft | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in loft=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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