Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 134
The plague was raging at Copenhagen; it was in the year 1711.
Who acts: plague · What happens: rage, be · To what, where: Copenhagen
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 (plague), 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 plague | det |
| 2 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raging | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 raging | aux |
| 4 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Copenhagen | case |
| 6 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 raging | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 year | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 year | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 year | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 year | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 raging | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | 1711 | 1711 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 year | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 raging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past · progressive | the plague | Copenhagen | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at copenhagen=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | plague | in the year | 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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