Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 15
They took each other's hand, and at that moment the door of one of the houses opened, and the neighbour appeared.
Who acts: children, houses, neighbour · What happens: take, open, appear · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, houses, neighbour), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 other | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 other | case |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 houses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 houses | det |
| 18 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 houses | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appeared | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 appeared | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 neighbour | det |
| 23 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appeared | nsubj |
| 24 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | children = child | each other's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the houses not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | the neighbour | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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