Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 89
And George was speaking again, for he took the lead now.
Who acts: George · What happens: speak, take · To what, where: lead · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 speaking | cc |
| 2 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | aux |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 speaking | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 took | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 speaking | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lead | det |
| 11 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 took | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | George | again | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | George | the lead | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=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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