Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 46
In the chief town of the province a great festival was being celebrated.
What happens: celebrate · To what, where: great festival, chief town
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 town | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 town | amod |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 celebrated | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 province | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 province | det |
| 7 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 town | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 festival | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 festival | amod |
| 10 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 13 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 celebrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | past · passive | a great festival | the chief town of the province | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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