Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 92
He saw everything that had happened quite clearly, as if it were passing before him.
Who acts: watchman, world · What happens: see, happen, pass · To what, where: everything
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 (watchman, world), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happened | aux |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 everything | acl:relcl |
| 7 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 clearly | advmod |
| 8 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 6 happened | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passing | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 passing | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 passing | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 passing | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 passing | aux |
| 14 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | conj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 passing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | watchman | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | clearly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | world | before watchman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=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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