Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 100
One day a great heap of wax-candle ends found their way into the cellar.
Who acts: great heap · What happens: find · To what, where: way, cellar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great heap), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heap | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heap | amod |
| 5 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ends | case |
| 7 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 candle | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 wax | punct |
| 9 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ends | compound |
| 10 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 heap | nmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 cellar | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cellar | det |
| 16 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a great heap of candle ends | ends's way | the cellar | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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