Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 22
But how did the conversation come to turn on these pictures?
Who acts: conversation · What happens: come, turn · To what, where: pictures
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 (conversation), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 come | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 come | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 conversation | det |
| 5 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 turn | mark |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 pictures | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 pictures | det |
| 11 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | the conversation | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | the conversation not said here | this pictures | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on picture=Trajectory |
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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