Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 17
"Suddenly some one came to the door, which opened, and the mother of the children appeared.
Who acts: one, door, mother · What happens: come, open, appear · To what, where: door
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 (one, door, mother), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 2 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 opened | nsubj |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 door | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appeared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 appeared | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 children | det |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mother | nmod |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | past | some one | the door | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | open in a quote | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | appear in a quote | past | the mother of the children | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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