Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 122
Little was eaten, but much was drunk, and the spirits of the company rose.
Who acts: much, spirits · What happens: eat, be, rise · To what, where: Little
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much, spirits), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 eaten | aux:pass |
| 3 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drunk | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 drunk | cc |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drunk | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drunk | cop |
| 8 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eaten | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirits | det |
| 12 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 company | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 company | det |
| 15 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spirits | nmod |
| 16 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drunk | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · passive | Little | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | past | much | drunk property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | the spirits of the company | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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