Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Second Visit, sentence 5
"When on the New Year's night the clock strikes twelve, the people at the table rise up with full glasses in their hands, and drain these glasses, and drink success to the New Year.
Who acts: clock, people · What happens: strike, rise up, drain, drink · To what, where: twelve, glasses, success
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 (clock, people), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 strikes | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 strikes | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Year | det |
| 5 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Year | compound |
| 6 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 night | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Year | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strikes | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clock | det |
| 10 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strikes | nsubj |
| 11 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 strikes | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rise | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rise | nsubj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 table | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 table | det |
| 18 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 19 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 strikes | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rise | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 glasses | case |
| 22 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 glasses | amod |
| 23 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rise | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hands | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 glasses | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drain | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drain | cc |
| 29 | drain | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 strikes | parataxis |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 glasses | det |
| 31 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 drain | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 drink | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drink | cc |
| 34 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 drain | conj |
| 35 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 drink | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Year | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Year | det |
| 38 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Year | compound |
| 39 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 drink | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 strikes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike in a quote | present | the clock | twelve | night | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient | |||
| 2 | rise up in a quote | infinitive | the people at the table | with full glasses in people's hands | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drain in a quote | present | this glasses | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | infinitive | success | to the New Year | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent success=Patient |
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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