Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 43
As a young man he had taken part in the great autumn reviews which were held in those days.
Who acts: General · What happens: take, hold · To what, where: part, great autumn reviews
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 (General), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 taken | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 taken | aux |
| 7 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taken | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 reviews | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reviews | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reviews | amod |
| 12 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reviews | compound |
| 13 | reviews | review | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 taken | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 held | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 held | aux:pass |
| 16 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 reviews | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 days | det |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 held | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | General | part | the great autumn reviews | as a young man | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent part=Theme as man=Attribute | ||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | the great autumn reviews | day | vn keep-15.2 «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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