Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Races, sentence 41
He had been running a long time before the engine; he had no idea that I was travelling there.
Who acts: hare, I · What happens: run, have, travel · To what, where: engine, idea
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 (hare, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 running | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 running | aux |
| 4 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 engine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 engine | det |
| 10 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 running | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 running | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 idea | det |
| 15 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 travelling | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 travelling | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 travelling | aux |
| 19 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 idea | acl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 travelling | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect · progressive | hare | the engine | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before engine=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | have | past | hare | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | travel | past · progressive | I | no idea not said here | there | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme idea=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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