Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 13
They placed straw round the coffin, and the van drove away.
Who acts: relatives, van · What happens: place, drive away · To what, where: straw
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Tenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relatives, van), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 4 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 coffin | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coffin | det |
| 6 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drove | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drove | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 van | det |
| 10 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drove | nsubj |
| 11 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 drove | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | relatives = relative | straw | round the coffin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent straw=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive away | past | the van | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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