Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirtieth Evening, sentence 6
Tramp, tramp'--somebody was coming upstairs: who might it be?
Who acts: Tramp · What happens: come, be
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 (Tramp), 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 | Tramp | tramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tramp | punct |
| 3 | tramp | tramp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tramp | appos |
| 4 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tramp | punct |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tramp | punct |
| 6 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 coming | aux |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 8 coming | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 be | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 be | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 be | aux |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 be | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 coming | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | Tramp | upstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | might | vn exist-47.1 «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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