Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 5
The proper authorities were informed of the circumstance, people talked a good deal about it, and in the morning the body was carried to the hospital.
Who acts: people · What happens: inform, talk, carry · To what, where: proper authorities, good deal, body, hospital
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: who acts (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 authorities | det |
| 2 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 authorities | amod |
| 3 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 informed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 informed | aux:pass |
| 5 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 circumstance | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 circumstance | det |
| 8 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 informed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 talked | punct |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 talked | nsubj |
| 11 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 informed | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deal | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deal | amod |
| 14 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talked | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deal | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 carried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 carried | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 morning | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 morning | det |
| 21 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 carried | aux:pass |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 talked | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 hospital | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hospital | det |
| 28 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 carried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · passive | the proper authorities | of the circumstance | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of circumstance=Topic | ||||
| 2 | talk | past | people | a good deal | about deal | tree rules | |||
| 3 | carry | past · passive | the body | the hospital | morning | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hospital=Destination |
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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