Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-first Evening, sentence 4
A closed carriage stood before it; a prisoner was to be carried away.
Who acts: closed carriage · What happens: close, stand, carry away · To what, where: prison, prisoner
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (closed carriage), 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 carriage | det |
| 2 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carriage | amod |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prisoner | det |
| 9 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | a closed carriage | prison | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before it=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry away | past · passive | a prisoner | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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