Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 16

Here was a capital playmate they had found; and they began marching--one, two; one, two.

Who acts: legs · What happens: be, find, begin, march · To what, where: capital playmate, one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirtieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (legs), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 playmate	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 playmate	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 playmate	det
4	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 playmate	amod
5	playmate	playmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj:pass
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 began	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 began	nsubj
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	conj
13	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 began	xcomp
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 marching	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 two	punct
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 found	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 two	punct
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 one	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		a capital playmate	here	tree rules
2	find	past · perfect · passive		a capital playmate		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	begin	past	legs = leg			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	march	gerund	legs = leg not said here	one		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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