Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 133
But something occurred to raise him up again.
Who acts: something · What happens: occur, raise up · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 occurred | cc |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 occurred | nsubj |
| 3 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 raise | mark |
| 5 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 occurred | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 raise | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 raise | compound:prt |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 raise | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | something | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | raise up | to-infinitive | something not said here | tree | again | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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