Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 1
A prize, or rather two prizes, a great one and a small one, had been awarded for the greatest swiftness in running,--not in a single race, but for the whole year.
Who acts: greatest swiftness · What happens: award, run · To what, where: prize, single race
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Races. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatest swiftness), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prize | det |
| 2 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 prizes | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 prizes | cc |
| 5 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 prizes | advmod |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 prizes | nummod |
| 7 | prizes | prize | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 prize | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prizes | appos |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 prize | punct |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 awarded | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 awarded | aux:pass |
| 19 | awarded | award | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 swiftness | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 swiftness | det |
| 22 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 swiftness | amod |
| 23 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awarded | obl |
| 24 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 25 running | mark |
| 25 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 swiftness | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 race | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 race | punct |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 race | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 race | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 race | det |
| 31 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 race | amod |
| 32 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 running | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 year | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 year | cc |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 year | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 year | det |
| 37 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 year | amod |
| 38 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awarded | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 awarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | award | past · perfect · passive | a prize or two prizes | year | for the greatest swiftness goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for swiftness=Goal | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | the greatest swiftness not said here | a single race | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in race=Trajectory |
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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