Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 97
Then he opened the book again to see what would turn up for little Emily.
Who acts: moon · What happens: open, see, turn up · To what, where: book · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (moon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 opened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 book | det |
| 5 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 opened | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 opened | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 turn | obj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | aux |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | ccomp |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 turn | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Emily | case |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Emily | amod |
| 15 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 turn | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | moon | the book | then; again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | moon not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | turn up | would | for little Emily | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=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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