Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 77
It was terribly cold and snowy, but aunt must go to the theatre.
Who acts: whole, aunt · What happens: be, go · To what, where: theatre
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 (whole, aunt), 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 | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 snowy | cc |
| 6 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cold | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 9 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 theatre | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 theatre | det |
| 14 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | whole | cold, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | whole not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | must | aunt | the theatre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial_Location |
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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