Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 102
The domino raised his mask, and it was George. "
Who acts: domino, person · What happens: raise, be · To what, where: mask, George
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (domino, person), 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 domino | det |
| 2 | domino | domino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mask | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mask | mask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 George | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 George | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 George | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 George | cop |
| 10 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the domino | General's mask | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mask=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | person | George | 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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