Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 1
Father, and mother, and brothers, and sisters, were gone to the play; only little Anna and her grandpapa were left at home.
What happens: go, leave · To what, where: Father, little Anna, home
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mother | cc |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brothers | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brothers | cc |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Father | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sisters | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sisters | cc |
| 10 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Father | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Father | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux:pass |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 play | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 play | det |
| 16 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 left | punct |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 Anna | advmod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Anna | amod |
| 20 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 left | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grandpapa | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 grandpapa | nmod:poss |
| 23 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Anna | conj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux:pass |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gone | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 left | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · passive | Father and brothers and sisters | to the play | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | little Anna and her grandpapa | home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at home=Location |
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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