Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 123
People used to stop and peep through the railings.
Who acts: People · What happens: use, stop, peep
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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stop | mark |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 peep | cc |
| 6 | peep | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 railings | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 railings | det |
| 9 | railings | railing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 peep | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | People | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | People not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | peep | infinitive | People not said here | through the railings | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through railing=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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