Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 23
Then meadows, peasants, and farmyards were staked on one card and lost.
What happens: stake, lose · To what, where: farmyards, one card
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 meadows | advmod |
| 2 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 peasants | punct |
| 4 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 meadows | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 staked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 staked | cc |
| 7 | farmyards | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 staked | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 staked | aux:pass |
| 9 | staked | stake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 meadows | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 card | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 card | nummod |
| 12 | card | card | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staked | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lost | cc |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 staked | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 meadows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stake | past · passive | farmyards | one card | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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