Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 20
And tonight a shabby hearse rolled out of the town-gate.
Who acts: shabby hearse · What happens: roll out · To what, where: town gate
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 (shabby hearse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hearse | cc |
| 2 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearse | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hearse | det |
| 4 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hearse | amod |
| 5 | hearse | hearse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hearse | acl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gate | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gate | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 town | punct |
| 12 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rolled | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll out | participle | a shabby hearse not said here | the town gate | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Agent |
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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