Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 2
He was a Dane, the owner of a travelling theatre.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, travel · To what, where: Dane
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Dane | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Dane | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Dane | det |
| 4 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 owner | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 owner | det |
| 7 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Dane | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 theatre | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 theatre | det |
| 10 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 theatre | amod |
| 11 | theatre | theatre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 owner | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dane | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man | a Dane | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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