Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 11
Accordingly, he at last drew back from all men, and became a hermit; but the church tower is the only place in a great city where hermitage, office and bread can be found together.
Who acts: blacking, church tower · What happens: draw back, become, be, find · To what, where: last, hermit, only place, great city, hermitage
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blacking, church tower), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 6 drew | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 drew | obl |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 drew | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 drew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 became | cc |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hermit | det |
| 15 | hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 became | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 place | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 place | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tower | det |
| 19 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tower | compound |
| 20 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 place | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 city | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 city | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 city | amod |
| 28 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 found | advmod |
| 30 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 office | punct |
| 32 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hermitage | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bread | cc |
| 34 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hermitage | conj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 found | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 found | aux:pass |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 city | acl:relcl |
| 38 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 found | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | blacking | last | from all men; accordingly property | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from man=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | become | past | blacking not said here | a hermit | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the church tower | the only place | a great city | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | can · passive | hermitage and office and bread | together property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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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