Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 37
I have really overtaken more than one hare, when I have been seated on the engine in front of a railway train.
Who acts: I · What happens: overtake, seat · To what, where: one hare, I, engine
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 (I), 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 | 4 overtaken | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 overtaken | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 overtaken | advmod |
| 4 | overtaken | overtake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 7 one | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hare | nummod |
| 8 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overtaken | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seated | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 seated | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 seated | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seated | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 seated | aux:pass |
| 14 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 overtaken | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 engine | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 engine | det |
| 17 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seated | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 front | case |
| 19 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seated | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 train | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 train | det |
| 22 | railway | railway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 train | compound |
| 23 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 front | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overtaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | present · perfect | I | one hare | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seat | present · perfect · passive | I | the engine | in front of a railway train | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in front=Location |
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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