Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 139
He was carrying his knapsack, which was better stacked with books and writings than with clothes.
Who acts: historian, knapsack · What happens: carry, be, stack · To what, where: knapsack
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 (historian, knapsack), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carrying | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carrying | aux |
| 3 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knapsack | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knapsack | knapsack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carrying | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 better | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 better | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 better | cop |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 knapsack | acl:relcl |
| 10 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 better | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 books | case |
| 12 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stacked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 writings | cc |
| 14 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 books | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 stacked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | historian | historian's knapsack | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knapsack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | historian's knapsack | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stack | participle | with books and writings; than clothes | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with book=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/139/