Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 118
A rich banker's family, who were driving in a coach and four, were blown out of it, and could not even find room behind it with their footmen.
Who acts: family · What happens: drive, blow out, not find · To what, where: coach, family, room
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 (family), 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 | 3 banker | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 banker | amod |
| 3 | banker | banker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 family | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 banker | case |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blown | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 driving | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 driving | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 driving | aux |
| 9 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 family | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coach | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coach | det |
| 12 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 four | cc |
| 14 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 coach | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 family | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 blown | aux:pass |
| 17 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 blown | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 find | advmod |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 find | advmod |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 blown | parataxis |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 room | nmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 footmen | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 footmen | nmod:poss |
| 32 | footmen | footman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 find | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 blown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | a rich banker's family | a coach | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | blow out | past · passive | a rich banker's family | coach | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | room | coach | with families's footmen | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic |
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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