Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, sentence 4
Time passed merrily in the large town which was his capital; strangers arrived every day at the court.
Who acts: large town, strangers · What happens: pass, be, arrive · To what, where: Time, large town, capital, court
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Emperor's New Clothes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large town, strangers), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Time | acl |
| 3 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 2 passed | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 capital | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 capital | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 capital | nmod:poss |
| 11 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 town | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
| 13 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | Time not said here | the large town | merrily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in town=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the large town | Emperor's capital | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | strangers | the court | day; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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