Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 43
There were not always things to be packed or unpacked, nor paper bags to be made, nor the scales to be polished.
Who acts: things · What happens: be, pack, unpack, make, polish · To what, where: paper bags, scales
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 (things), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 things | advmod |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 things | advmod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 packed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 packed | aux:pass |
| 8 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 things | acl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 unpacked | cc |
| 10 | unpacked | unpack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 packed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bags | punct |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 bags | cc |
| 13 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bags | compound |
| 14 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 packed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 made | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 packed | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 polished | punct |
| 19 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 polished | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 scales | det |
| 21 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 polished | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 polished | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 polished | aux:pass |
| 24 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 made | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pack | to-infinitive · passive | things not said here | paper bags | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination» | ||||
| 3 | unpack | participle | things not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive · passive | things not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | |||||
| 5 | polish | to-infinitive · passive | the scales | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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