Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 16
While the conversation turned on this subject, and was only for a moment interrupted by the arrival of a journal that contained nothing worth reading, we will just step out into the antechamber, where cloaks, mackintoshes, sticks, umbrellas, and shoes, were deposited.
Who acts: conversation, journal, we · What happens: turn, be, interrupt, contain, step out, deposit · To what, where: subject, moment, nothing, antechamber, cloaks
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 (conversation, journal, we), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 turned | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 conversation | det |
| 3 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 step | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 subject | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 subject | det |
| 7 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moment | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moment | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 moment | cop |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 moment | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 15 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 moment | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 arrival | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 arrival | det |
| 18 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 interrupted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 journal | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 journal | det |
| 21 | journal | journal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrival | nmod |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 contained | nsubj |
| 23 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 journal | acl:relcl |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 contained | obj |
| 25 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 reading | amod |
| 26 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nothing | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 step | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 step | aux |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 31 step | advmod |
| 31 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 step | compound:prt |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 antechamber | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 antechamber | det |
| 35 | antechamber | antechamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 step | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 deposited | punct |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 50 deposited | advmod |
| 38 | cloaks | cloak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 deposited | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mackintoshes | punct |
| 40 | mackintoshes | mackintosh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cloaks | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 sticks | punct |
| 42 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cloaks | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 umbrellas | punct |
| 44 | umbrellas | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cloaks | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 shoes | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 shoes | cc |
| 47 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cloaks | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cloaks | punct |
| 49 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 deposited | aux:pass |
| 50 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 antechamber | acl:relcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 step | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the conversation | this subject | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | for a moment | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | interrupt | participle | a moment not said here | by the arrival of a journal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | contain | past | a journal | nothing | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | step out | future | we | the antechamber | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into antechamber=Destination | ||||
| 6 | deposit | past · passive | cloaks and mackintoshes and sticks and umbrellas and shoes | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | arrive | a journal | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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