Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 44
In the evening “Dramatic Readings” were to be given at the little theatre in King Street.
What happens: give · To what, where: Dramatic Readings, little theatre
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Readings | punct |
| 5 | Dramatic | dramatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Readings | amod |
| 6 | Readings | reading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 given | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Readings | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 given | aux |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 given | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 given | aux:pass |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 theatre | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 theatre | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 theatre | amod |
| 15 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 given | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Street | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Street | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Street | Street | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 theatre | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | Dramatic Readings | the little theatre in Street King | evening | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at theatre=Asset |
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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