Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 1
It was New Year's day, and I went up on the tower.
Who acts: It, I · What happens: be, go up · To what, where: day, tower
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Second Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 day | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | cop |
| 3 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Year | compound |
| 4 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 day | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Year | case |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | acl:relcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | New Year's day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | I | New Year's day not said here | the tower | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient day=Extent |
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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