Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 81
It was to be found, with many other writings, locked up in his table-drawer.
What happens: find, lock up · To what, where: rope, many other writings, table drawer
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: 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 | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 found | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 writings | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 writings | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 writings | amod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 writings | amod |
| 10 | writings | writing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 locked | punct |
| 12 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 writings | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 locked | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 drawer | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 drawer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drawer | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 table | punct |
| 18 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 locked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | rope | with many other writings | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lock up | participle | many other writings not said here | clerk's table drawer | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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