Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 23
Why, they had been talking of Russia and of Moscow, and thus mention was made of the Kremlin, which little George had once drawn for Miss Emily.
Who acts: pictures, Kremlin, little George · What happens: talk, make, draw · To what, where: thus mention, Kremlin
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 (pictures, Kremlin, little 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 talking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 talking | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 talking | aux |
| 6 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Russia | case |
| 8 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 talking | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Moscow | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Moscow | case |
| 11 | Moscow | Moscow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Russia | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mention | amod |
| 15 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | aux:pass |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 talking | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kremlin | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Kremlin | det |
| 20 | Kremlin | Kremlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl:agent |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drawn | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 drawn | obj |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 George | amod |
| 24 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 drawn | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 drawn | aux |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 drawn | advmod |
| 27 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 Kremlin | acl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 Emily | case |
| 29 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Emily | compound |
| 30 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 drawn | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · perfect · progressive | pictures = picture | of Russia and Moscow | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the Kremlin | thus mention | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | draw | past · perfect | little George | the Kremlin | for Miss Emily; once property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Result for emily=Beneficiary |
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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