Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 69
But where were the hackney-coaches?
Who acts: hackney coaches · What happens: be
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 (hackney coaches), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 where | cc |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 where | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coaches | det |
| 5 | hackney | hackney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coaches | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 hackney | punct |
| 7 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 where | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hackney coaches | where property | tree rules |
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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