Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 72
The clothes were ready, and the candidate for confirmation was ready.
Who acts: clothes, candidate · What happens: be
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 (clothes, candidate), 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 clothes | det |
| 2 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ready | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ready | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 candidate | det |
| 8 | candidate | candidate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 confirmation | case |
| 10 | confirmation | confirmation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 candidate | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ready | cop |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ready | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the clothes | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the candidate for confirmation | ready property | tree rules |
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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