Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 19
Five minutes more, and the stage was empty, the company had vanished, and not a sound more was heard--all were gone.
Who acts: stage, company, all · What happens: be, vanish, hear · To what, where: sound
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stage, company, all), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 minutes | nummod |
| 2 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 more | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 empty | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 empty | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stage | det |
| 7 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 empty | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 empty | cop |
| 9 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 more | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vanished | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 company | det |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 vanished | aux |
| 14 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 empty | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sound | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sound | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 sound | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sound | det |
| 19 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vanished | obl |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 heard | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux:pass |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 sound | acl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 gone | punct |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 gone | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 gone | cop |
| 26 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 heard | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stage | empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past · perfect | the company | a sound | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | a sound not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all | gone property | tree rules |
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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