Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 3
Now and then, certainly, a door is seen; but it is locked, for what does the Chinaman care about the outer world?
What happens: see, lock, do · To what, where: door, Chinaman care
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 seen | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 then | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Now | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 10 seen | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 seen | aux:pass |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 locked | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 locked | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 locked | aux:pass |
| 15 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seen | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 does | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 does | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 does | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 locked | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 care | det |
| 21 | Chinaman | Chinaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 care | compound |
| 22 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 does | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 25 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 care | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · passive | a door | now | certainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lock | present · passive | door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | do | present | the Chinaman care | about the outer world | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Eventuality |
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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