Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 34
And grandpapa took a newspaper, and read as if he were reading from it:
Who acts: grandpapa · What happens: take, read · To what, where: newspaper
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: who acts (grandpapa), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | grandpapa | grandpapa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 newspaper | det |
| 5 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 read | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 read | cc |
| 8 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 reading | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 reading | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reading | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reading | aux |
| 13 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 read | advcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reading | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | grandpapa | a newspaper | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | read | past · progressive | grandpapa | newspaper | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from it=Source |
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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