Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 135
Some one of the worthy burghers now spoke of the dreadful pestilence that had raged in the country a few years back, meaning that of 1484.
Who acts: one, dreadful pestilence · What happens: speak, rage, mean · To what, where: country, 1484 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, dreadful pestilence), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 burghers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 burghers | det |
| 5 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 burghers | amod |
| 6 | burghers | burgher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 spoke | advmod |
| 8 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pestilence | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pestilence | det |
| 11 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pestilence | amod |
| 12 | pestilence | pestilence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoke | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 raged | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 raged | aux |
| 15 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 pestilence | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raged | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 years | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 years | amod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 back | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 spoke | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 meaning | punct |
| 24 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 spoke | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 1484 | mark |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 1484 | case |
| 27 | 1484 | 1484 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 meaning | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | some one of the worthy burghers | now | of the dreadful pestilence | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rage | past · perfect | the dreadful pestilence | the country | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 3 | mean | gerund | some one of the worthy burghers not said here | 1484 | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1484=Topic |
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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