Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 40
And then the conversation turned on other matters.
What happens: turn · To what, where: conversation, other matters
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 conversation | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 conversation | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conversation | det |
| 4 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 conversation | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 matters | case |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 matters | amod |
| 8 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 turned | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 conversation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | the conversation not said here | other matters | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on matter=Trajectory |
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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