Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 43
A few persons in the costume of the time of King Hans passed quickly by him.
Who acts: few persons · What happens: pass
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 (few persons), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 persons | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 persons | amod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 costume | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 costume | det |
| 6 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 persons | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 costume | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Hans | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hans | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 13 passed | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | a few persons in the costume of the time of Hans King | by Hans; quickly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
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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