Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 114
In the evening, a hearse stopped at the door, and the old man in his coffin was placed in it.
Who acts: hearse · What happens: stop, place · To what, where: door, old man, hearse
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearse), 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 | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hearse | det |
| 6 | hearse | hearse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 door | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 placed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 placed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 coffin | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 coffin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 placed | aux:pass |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stopped | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 placed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | participle | a hearse | the door | evening | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | |||
| 2 | place | past · passive | the old man in man's coffin | hearse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in it=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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