Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 98
It was a sort of hostelry of those times; a kind of public-house.
Who acts: light · What happens: be · To what, where: sort
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 (light), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sort | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sort | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sort | det |
| 4 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hostelry | case |
| 6 | hostelry | hostelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sort | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 times | case |
| 8 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 times | det |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hostelry | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 kind | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kind | det |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sort | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 public | punct |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kind | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | light | a sort and a kind of public house | of hostelry of that times | 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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