Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 71
The poets Hauch and Ingemann were appointed professors here.
What happens: appoint · To what, where: poets
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 poets | det |
| 2 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appointed | nsubj |
| 3 | Hauch | Hauch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 poets | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Ingemann | cc |
| 5 | Ingemann | Ingemann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hauch | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appointed | aux:pass |
| 7 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | professors | professor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appointed | obj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 appointed | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | the poets | here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme professor=Attribute |
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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