Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 7
A travelling coach passed by below, the postillion wound his horn, and the poor nuns looked after the carriage for a moment with a mournful glance, and a tear gleamed in the eyes of the younger one.
Who acts: travelling coach, poor nuns, tear · What happens: pass, woun, look, gleam · To what, where: travelling coach, horn, eyes
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 (travelling coach, poor nuns, tear), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 coach | det |
| 2 | travelling | travelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coach | compound |
| 3 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wound | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 coach | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 below | case |
| 6 | below | below | ADV | _ | 4 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 coach | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 postillion | det |
| 9 | postillion | postillion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wound | nsubj |
| 10 | wound | woun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horn | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wound | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 looked | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nuns | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 nuns | amod |
| 17 | nuns | nun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wound | conj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 carriage | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 carriage | det |
| 21 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 glance | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 glance | det |
| 27 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 glance | amod |
| 28 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moment | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gleamed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gleamed | cc |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tear | det |
| 32 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gleamed | nsubj |
| 33 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wound | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 eyes | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 eyes | det |
| 36 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gleamed | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 one | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 one | det |
| 39 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 one | amod |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 eyes | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a travelling coach not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by below=Location | |||||
| 2 | woun | past | a travelling coach | postillion's horn | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the poor nuns | after the carriage; moment | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | gleam | participle | a tear | the eyes of the younger one | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |
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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