Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 52
It happened that the next day was another birthday in that house, the General's birthday.
Who acts: It, next day · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: birthday, house
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 (It, next day), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 birthday | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 birthday | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 birthday | cop |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 birthday | det |
| 9 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 birthday | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 birthday | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 General | det |
| 15 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 General | case |
| 17 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the next day | another birthday | that house and the General's birthday | 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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