Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 23
Behind the counter, as a rule, there were no young men.
Who acts: young men · What happens: be · To what, where: counter
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 (young men), 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 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 3 counter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 counter | det |
| 3 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 were | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rule | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 rule | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rule | det |
| 7 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counter | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 counter | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 were | expl |
| 10 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 men | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no young men | the counter and a rule; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind counter=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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