Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 75
He found, however, a little side-door open, and through this he went, and stepped into our New Market of the present time.
Who acts: scaffolding, our · What happens: find, go, step, market · To what, where: this, New Market, present time
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 (scaffolding, our), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 open | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 door | amod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 door | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 side | punct |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 this | case |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 went | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stepped | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stepped | cc |
| 20 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 found | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 Market | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Market | nmod:poss |
| 23 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Market | amod |
| 24 | Market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stepped | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Market | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | scaffolding | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | scaffolding | this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through this=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | step | past | scaffolding not said here | our New Market of the present time | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into market=Destination | ||||
| 4 | market | our | the present time | nom market «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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