Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 17
So now he got the place of “Universal Bell-ringer,” and wrote yearly a short treatise “On the Owl”; but everybody was just as wise as before.
Who acts: One, everybody · What happens: get, write, be · To what, where: place, short treatise
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, everybody), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ringer | case |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 ringer | punct |
| 9 | Universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ringer | amod |
| 10 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ringer | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bell | punct |
| 12 | ringer | ringer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wrote | cc |
| 16 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 17 | yearly | yearly | ADV | _ | 16 wrote | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 treatise | det |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 treatise | amod |
| 20 | treatise | treatise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrote | obj |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Owl | punct |
| 22 | On | on | ADP | _ | 24 Owl | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Owl | det |
| 24 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 treatise | appos |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Owl | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 wise | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 wise | cc |
| 28 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 wise | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 wise | cop |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 wise | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 wise | advmod |
| 32 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 before | case |
| 34 | before | before | ADV | _ | 32 wise | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | One | the place of Universal Bell ringer | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | write | past | One not said here | a short treatise | yearly property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatise=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | everybody | wise property | 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: «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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