Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 93
Then the landlord's coach came to the door, and the two Englishmen and the peasant got in, and away they drove, and soon arrived and stopped at the peasant's hut. "
Who acts: coach, two Englishmen, Englishmen · What happens: come, get in, drive, arrive, stop · To what, where: door, hut
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 (coach, two Englishmen, Englishmen), 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 | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 landlord | det |
| 3 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coach | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 landlord | case |
| 5 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Englishmen | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Englishmen | nummod |
| 14 | Englishmen | Englishman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 got | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 peasant | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 peasant | det |
| 17 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Englishmen | conj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drove | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drove | cc |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 drove | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drove | nsubj |
| 24 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 arrived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 arrived | cc |
| 27 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 arrived | advmod |
| 28 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stopped | cc |
| 30 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 arrived | conj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 hut | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 peasant | det |
| 33 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hut | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 peasant | case |
| 35 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stopped | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the landlord's coach | the door | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | get in | past | the two Englishmen and the peasant | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | Englishmen = englishman | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stop | past | the peasant's hut | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hut=Location |
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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