Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 95
On Sunday afternoons they would bring out some books, generally a book of travels which they were very fond of.
Who acts: people, book · What happens: bring out, travel, be · To what, where: books
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 (people, book), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 afternoons | case |
| 2 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 afternoons | compound |
| 3 | afternoons | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 bring | compound:prt |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 books | det |
| 9 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 travels | punct |
| 11 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 15 travels | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 book | det |
| 13 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 travels | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 travels | case |
| 15 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | parataxis |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 fond | nsubj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fond | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fond | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 fond | advmod |
| 20 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 travels | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fond | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | would | people | some books | afternoon | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient | |||
| 2 | travel | present | a book | generally property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | fond 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.
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