Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 32
A telegram used to be dispatched to her at coffee-time, and it used to consist of the words, "Herr Sivertsen is at the machinery;" for it was he who gave the signal for drawing the curtain up and down and for changing the scenes.
Who acts: telegram, Herr Sivertsen, theatre, Sivertsen · What happens: use, dispatch, consist, be, give, draw · To what, where: telegram, machinery, signal, curtain, scenes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (telegram, Herr Sivertsen, theatre, Sivertsen), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 telegram | det |
| 2 | telegram | telegram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 telegram | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 dispatched | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dispatched | aux:pass |
| 6 | dispatched | dispatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 used | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dispatched | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 time | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 coffee | punct |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dispatched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 used | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 used | nsubj |
| 16 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 consist | mark |
| 18 | consist | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 used | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 words | det |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 consist | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 machinery | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 machinery | punct |
| 24 | Herr | Herr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Sivertsen | compound |
| 25 | Sivertsen | Sivertsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 machinery | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 machinery | cop |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 machinery | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 machinery | det |
| 29 | machinery | machinery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 consist | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 gave | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 gave | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 he | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 he | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 he | cop |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 gave | nsubj |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 gave | nsubj |
| 37 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 used | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 signal | det |
| 39 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gave | obj |
| 40 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 drawing | mark |
| 41 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 gave | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 curtain | det |
| 43 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 drawing | obj |
| 44 | up | up | ADV | _ | 41 drawing | advmod |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 down | cc |
| 46 | down | down | ADV | _ | 44 up | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 changing | cc |
| 48 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 49 changing | mark |
| 49 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 drawing | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 scenes | det |
| 51 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 changing | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a telegram not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | dispatch | to-infinitive · passive | telegram | time | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | use | past | a telegram | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | consist | to-infinitive | a telegram not said here | of the words | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Herr Sivertsen | the machinery | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | theatre | for Sivertsen | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | give | past | Sivertsen | the signal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 8 | draw | gerund | Sivertsen not said here | the curtain | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme | ||||
| 9 | change | gerund | Sivertsen not said here | the scenes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=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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