Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 103
Palle Dyre was out hunting foxes, and the gracious lady was nowhere to be found.
Who acts: Palle · What happens: hunt, find · To what, where: foxes, gracious lady
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Palle), 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 | Palle | Palle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hunting | nsubj |
| 2 | Dyre | Dyre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Palle | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hunting | aux |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 was | compound:prt |
| 5 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hunting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 10 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lady | amod |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 found | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 found | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 found | aux:pass |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hunting | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | Palle | foxes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | the gracious lady | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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