Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 75
Many guests were present--horse dealers, cattle drovers, and two Englishmen.
Who acts: Many guests · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many guests), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 guests | amod |
| 2 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 present | cop |
| 4 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 guests | acl |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 dealers | punct |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dealers | compound |
| 7 | dealers | dealer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 guests | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drovers | punct |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 drovers | amod |
| 10 | drovers | drover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 guests | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Englishmen | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Englishmen | cc |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Englishmen | nummod |
| 14 | Englishmen | englishman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 guests | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 guests | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Many guests and horse dealers and cattle drovers and two Englishmen not said here | present property | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/132/75/