Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 107
The two schoolboys, the proprietors now of the transformed clerk, carried him into an elegant room.
Who acts: two schoolboys · What happens: transform, carry · To what, where: Clerk, elegant room
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two schoolboys), 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 schoolboys | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 schoolboys | nummod |
| 3 | schoolboys | schoolboy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 proprietors | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 proprietors | det |
| 6 | proprietors | proprietor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 schoolboys | conj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 carried | advmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 clerk | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clerk | det |
| 10 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 clerk | amod |
| 11 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clerk | punct |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 17 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | carry | past | the two schoolboys and the proprietors | Clerk | a elegant room | now | of the transformed clerk | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme of clerk=Initial_Location |
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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