Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 10
Punctually at eight o'clock my performance closed, for children must go early to bed, and a manager must also consult the convenience of the public.
Who acts: children, manager, my · What happens: close, go, consult, perform · To what, where: performance, bed, convenience
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, manager, my), 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 | Punctually | punctually | ADV | _ | 6 performance | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 o'clock | case |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 o'clock | nummod |
| 4 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Punctually | obl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 performance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 performance | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 closed | conj |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 bed | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 bed | case |
| 15 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 consult | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 consult | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 manager | det |
| 19 | manager | manager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consult | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 consult | aux |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 consult | advmod |
| 22 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 performance | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 convenience | det |
| 24 | convenience | convenience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 consult | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 public | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 public | det |
| 27 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 convenience | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 performance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | my performance not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | go | must | children | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | consult | must | a manager | the convenience of the public | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent convenience=Theme | ||||
| 4 | perform | my | nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=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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