Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 20
George hurried up stairs to the General's apartments; he opened the door of the nursery.
Who acts: George · What happens: hurry up, open · To what, where: stairs, apartments, door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George), 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 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hurried | nsubj |
| 2 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 hurried | compound:prt |
| 4 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hurried | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 apartments | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 General | det |
| 7 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 General | case |
| 9 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hurried | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | nsubj |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hurried | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 door | det |
| 14 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opened | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nursery | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 nursery | det |
| 17 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 door | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry up | past | George | stairs | the General's apartments | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stair=Theme to apartment=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | open | past | George | the door of the nursery | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
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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