Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 55
Reflecting on the matter, and without looking right or left, the Councillor went through East Street and across the Habro-Platz.
Who acts: Councillor · What happens: reflect, look, leave, go · To what, where: East Street
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 (Councillor), 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 | Reflecting | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 went | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 matter | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 matter | det |
| 4 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Reflecting | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looking | cc |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 looking | mark |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Reflecting | conj |
| 9 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 looking | xcomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 left | cc |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 right | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Reflecting | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Councillor | det |
| 14 | Councillor | Councillor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 Street | case |
| 17 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Street | compound |
| 18 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Platz | cc |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 24 Platz | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Platz | det |
| 22 | Habro | Habro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Platz | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Habro | punct |
| 24 | Platz | Platz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Street | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | gerund | the Councillor not said here | on the matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on matter=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the Councillor not said here | right property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | the Councillor not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the Councillor | East Street and the Habro Platz | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through street=Initial_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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