Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 22
The driver of the hearse was the only person present, for no one followed except my beams.
Who acts: driver, one, my · What happens: be, follow, beam · To what, where: only person present
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 (driver, one, my), 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 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 present | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hearse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hearse | det |
| 5 | hearse | hearse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 driver | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 present | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 present | det |
| 8 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 present | amod |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 present | compound |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 followed | mark |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | nsubj |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 present | advcl |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 18 beams | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 beams | nmod:poss |
| 18 | beams | beam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 followed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the driver of the hearse | the only person present | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | no one | except my beams | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beam | my | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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