Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 98
Then the old man came in, with a box containing many curious things to show him.
Who acts: old man, box · What happens: come in, contain, show · To what, where: many curious things, man
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 (old man, box), 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 | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 box | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 box | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 box | det |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 11 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 box | acl |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 13 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 containing | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 show | mark |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 things | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 show | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | the old man | then | with a box | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | a box not said here | many curious things | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | to-infinitive | a box not said here | many curious things not said here | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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