Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 106
During the beautiful summer-time Mr. George several times visited the Count at his castle; and he was missed when he did not come.
Who acts: George several times, Count · What happens: visit, miss, not come · To what, where: Count, castle
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George several times, Count), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 summer | punct |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visited | obl |
| 7 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 George | nmod:desc |
| 8 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 times | compound |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 times | amod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 visited | nsubj |
| 11 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Count | det |
| 13 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visited | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 castle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 visited | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 missed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 missed | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 missed | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 missed | aux:pass |
| 21 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 visited | conj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 come | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 come | advmod |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 missed | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | George several times | the Count | Count's castle | time | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent count=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | miss | past · passive | Count | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not come | past · do-support | Count | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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