Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 154
Air balloons had not then been invented, nor steam-ships, nor railways.
What happens: not invent · To what, where: Air balloons
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 balloons | compound |
| 2 | balloons | balloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invented | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 invented | advmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 invented | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 invented | aux:pass |
| 7 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ships | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 ships | cc |
| 10 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ships | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 steam | punct |
| 12 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 invented | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 railways | punct |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 railways | cc |
| 15 | railways | railway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 invented | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not invent | past · perfect · passive | Air balloons | then | steam ships obl; railways obl | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
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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