Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 122
A great crowd assembled to witness the sight; military music had been engaged, and many other preparations made.
Who acts: great crowd · What happens: assemble, engage, make · To what, where: sight, great crowd, many other preparations
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great crowd), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crowd | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crowd | amod |
| 3 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crowd | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 witness | mark |
| 6 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assembled | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assembled | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 engaged | punct |
| 10 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 music | amod |
| 11 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 engaged | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 engaged | aux:pass |
| 14 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 preparations | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 preparations | cc |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 preparations | amod |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 preparations | amod |
| 19 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 engaged | obl |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 preparations | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | a great crowd not said here | the sight | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | engage | past · perfect · passive | a great crowd | many other preparations obl | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | many other preparations not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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