Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 9
I heard that he was a member of the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen, who had been sent out to lecture to the people in the provinces.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: hear, be, send out, lecture · To what, where: member, Polytechnic Institution, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 member | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 member | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 member | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 member | det |
| 7 | member | member | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Institution | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Institution | det |
| 10 | Polytechnic | Polytechnic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Institution | compound |
| 11 | Institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 member | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Copenhagen | case |
| 13 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Institution | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Institution | acl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sent | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 lecture | mark |
| 21 | lecture | lecture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 people | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lecture | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 provinces | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 provinces | det |
| 27 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 people | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | man | a member | of the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send out | past · perfect · passive | the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lecture speech: other | to-infinitive | the people in the provinces | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient |
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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