Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Tenth Evening, sentence 21
The coffin in its covering of straw tumbled out of the van, and was left on the high-road, while horses, coachman, and carriage flew past in wild career.
Who acts: coffin · What happens: tumble, leave, fly · To what, where: straw, van, coffin, high road, wild career
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 (coffin), 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 | 2 coffin | det |
| 2 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 covering | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 covering | nmod:poss |
| 5 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coffin | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 straw | case |
| 7 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covering | nmod |
| 8 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 straw | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 van | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 van | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 van | det |
| 12 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tumbled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | aux:pass |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 coffin | acl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 road | det |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 road | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 high | punct |
| 21 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 horses | punct |
| 23 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 horses | case |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 left | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 coachman | punct |
| 26 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 horses | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 flew | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flew | cc |
| 29 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | nsubj |
| 30 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | past | past | ADV | _ | 30 flew | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 career | case |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 career | amod |
| 34 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 flew | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tumble | participle | straw not said here | the van | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out van=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | the coffin in coffin's covering of straw not said here | the high road | while horses and coachman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: on road=Location | |||
| 3 | fly | past | the coffin in coffin's covering of straw | wild career | past property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in career=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: «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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