Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 17
Again a play was to be acted, but in a little theatre, and by a poor strolling company.
Who acts: poor strolling company · What happens: act · To what, where: play, little theatre
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 (poor strolling company), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 play | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 play | det |
| 3 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 acted | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 acted | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 acted | aux:pass |
| 7 | acted | act | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 theatre | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 theatre | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 theatre | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 theatre | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 theatre | amod |
| 13 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acted | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 company | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 company | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 company | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 company | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 company | amod |
| 19 | strolling | strolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 company | compound |
| 20 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 acted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | past · passive | a poor strolling company | a play | a little theatre | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
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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