Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 57
Then he took from the book-case, a book full of pictures representing long processions of wonderful coaches, such as are never seen at the present time.
Who acts: man, pictures, wonderful coaches · What happens: take, represent, not see, proceed · To what, where: book, book case, long processions
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 (man, pictures, wonderful coaches), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 case | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 case | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 case | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 book | punct |
| 8 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 book | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 book | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pictures | case |
| 14 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 pictures | acl |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 processions | amod |
| 17 | processions | procession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 representing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 coaches | case |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 coaches | amod |
| 20 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 processions | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seen | punct |
| 22 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 seen | mark |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 such | fixed |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 seen | advmod |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 processions | acl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 time | det |
| 29 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 time | compound |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | a book | the book case | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from case=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | represent | gerund | pictures not said here | long processions of wonderful coaches | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot procession=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | present · passive | long processions of wonderful coaches not said here | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | proceed | wonderful coaches | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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