Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 10
When the piece was over, I saw a form wrapped in a mantle, creeping down the steps: it was the vanquished knight of the evening.
Who acts: piece, I · What happens: be, see, wrap, creep, vanquish · To what, where: form, mantle, vanquished knight
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 saw | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 form | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mantle | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mantle | det |
| 14 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 creeping | punct |
| 16 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 steps | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 steps | det |
| 19 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 creeping | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 knight | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knight | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 knight | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 knight | det |
| 24 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 knight | amod |
| 25 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 evening | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 evening | det |
| 28 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knight | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the piece | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | a form | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wrap | participle | a form not said here | a mantle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mantle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | creep | gerund | I not said here | down the steps | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | vanquish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | piece | the vanquished knight | evening | 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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