Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 4
To the present generation these are old pictures, but I saw when they were put up, and marked how one followed the other.
Who acts: these, I, one · What happens: be, see, put up, mark, follow · To what, where: old pictures, pictures, other · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, I, one), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 generation | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 generation | det |
| 3 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 generation | amod |
| 4 | generation | generation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pictures | obl |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 pictures | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pictures | cop |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pictures | amod |
| 8 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pictures | acl:relcl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 put | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux:pass |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 put | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 marked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 marked | cc |
| 20 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 followed | advmod |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 followed | nsubj |
| 23 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 marked | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 followed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pictures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | these | old pictures | to the present generation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | I | old pictures not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put up | past · passive | pictures = picture | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 4 | mark | past | I not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | follow | past | one | the other | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
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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