Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 11
"At nine o'clock the lecturer commenced his lecture and his experiments, and then I formed a part of his audience.
Who acts: lecturer, man · What happens: commence, form, lecture, experiment · To what, where: lecture, nine o'clock, part
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 (lecturer, man), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 o'clock | case |
| 3 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 o'clock | nummod |
| 4 | o'clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lecturer | det |
| 6 | lecturer | lecturer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | nsubj |
| 7 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lecture | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lecture | lecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commenced | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 experiments | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 experiments | nmod:poss |
| 12 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lecture | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 formed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 formed | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 formed | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 formed | nsubj |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 commenced | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 part | det |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 audience | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 audience | nmod:poss |
| 22 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 commenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commence in a quote | past | the lecturer | lecturer's lecture and lecturer's experiments | nine o'clock | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lecture=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | form in a quote | past | man | a part of lecturer's audience | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | |||
| 3 | lecture in a quote | lecturer | nom lecture «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | experiment in a quote | lecturer | nom experiment «act intransitive»: 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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