Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 2
It was so old, that it began to think of marriage; and it happened that it came to be washed in company with a garter.
Who acts: world, it · What happens: be, begin, think, happen, come, wash · To what, where: company
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, it), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 began | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 marriage | case |
| 12 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 happened | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 washed | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 washed | aux:pass |
| 22 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 came | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 company | case |
| 24 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 washed | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 garter | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 garter | det |
| 27 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 washed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | world | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | world | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | world not said here | of marriage | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come | past | world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | wash | to-infinitive · passive | world not said here | company | with a garter | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: with garter=Instrument |
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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