Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 9
The dustman was there with his cart, which was full, and looked like a sample of streets on moving-day.
Who acts: dustman, cart · What happens: be, look, move, sample · To what, where: streets
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dustman, cart), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dustman | det |
| 2 | dustman | dustman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cart | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cart | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | parataxis |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 sample | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sample | det |
| 17 | sample | sample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 streets | case |
| 19 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sample | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 moving | mark |
| 21 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 looked | advcl |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 day | punct |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moving | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dustman | with Christmas's cart; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Christmas's cart | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | like a sample of streets | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | move | gerund | day | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sample | streets | nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=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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