Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 97
However, it did something quite as important; it travelled to the place of its destination, and was unpacked.
Who acts: much · What happens: do, travel, unpack · To what, where: something, place
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 (much), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 important | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 important | advmod |
| 8 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 travelled | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 travelled | nsubj |
| 11 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travelled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 destination | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 destination | nmod:poss |
| 17 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unpacked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 unpacked | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 unpacked | aux:pass |
| 21 | unpacked | unpack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 travelled | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | much | something | however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | travel | past | much | the place of much's destination | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | unpack | past · passive | much not said here | tree rules |
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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