Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 36
Those were the words that were carried down into the cellar.
What happens: be, carry down · To what, where: words, cellar
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: 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | aux:pass |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 words | acl:relcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 carried | compound:prt |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 cellar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cellar | det |
| 11 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry down | past · passive | that words | the cellar | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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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