Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 2
The house was crowded, for a new actor was to make his first appearance that night.
Who acts: house, new actor · What happens: be
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 (house, new actor), 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 house | det |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowded | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crowded | cop |
| 4 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 make | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 actor | det |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 actor | amod |
| 9 | actor | actor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 make | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 crowded | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 appearance | amod |
| 15 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the house | crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a new actor | night | make 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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