Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, sentence 23
Two minutes later, he was sitting in a hackney-coach and driving to Frederickshafen.
Who acts: glass · What happens: sit, drive · To what, where: hackney coach, Frederickshafen
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glass), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sitting | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 later | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sitting | aux |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coach | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coach | det |
| 10 | hackney | hackney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coach | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 hackney | punct |
| 12 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 driving | cc |
| 14 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sitting | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Frederickshafen | case |
| 16 | Frederickshafen | Frederickshafen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 driving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | glass | a hackney coach | late property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coach=Location | |||
| 2 | drive | gerund | glass not said here | Frederickshafen | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to frederickshafen=Trajectory |
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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