Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 165
The balloon rose again into the air, which it ought not to have done; what became of it is not known, neither is it of any consequence, for balloons had not then been invented.
Who acts: balloon · What happens: rise, not do, become, not know, be, not invent · To what, where: air
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: who acts (balloon), 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 balloon | det |
| 2 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 rose | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 done | obj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 done | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 done | mark |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 air | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 became | nsubj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 known | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 known | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 known | aux:pass |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 known | advmod |
| 23 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 became | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 it | punct |
| 25 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 it | cc:preconj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 it | cop |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 became | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 consequence | case |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 consequence | det |
| 30 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 it | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 balloons | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 balloons | case |
| 33 | balloons | balloon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 invented | obl |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 invented | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 invented | advmod |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 invented | advmod |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 invented | aux:pass |
| 38 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 became | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the balloon | the air | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not do | ought · perfect · passive | the balloon not said here | air | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | not know | present · passive | air | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | air | of any consequence | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not invent | past · perfect · passive | then | for balloons | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V» |
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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