Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 11
It was the hand of a pedlar; he had witnessed what had happened from a short distance, and now hastened to assist her.
Who acts: hand, child · What happens: be, witness, happen, hasten, assist · To what, where: hand, girl
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, child), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hand | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pedlar | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pedlar | det |
| 7 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 witnessed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 witnessed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 witnessed | aux |
| 11 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 hand | conj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | aux |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 witnessed | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 distance | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 distance | det |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 distance | amod |
| 18 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 happened | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hastened | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hastened | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 hastened | advmod |
| 22 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 happened | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 assist | mark |
| 24 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 hastened | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 assist | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hand | the hand | of a pedlar | tree rules | |||
| 2 | witness | past · perfect | child | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | from a short distance | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hasten | participle | now | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | assist | to-infinitive | girl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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