Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 29
Less than six years afterwards the baron passed out of his castle-gate a poor beggar, while the baronial seat had been bought by a rich tradesman.
Who acts: baron, rich tradesman · What happens: pass out, buy · To what, where: castle gate, baronial seat
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 (baron, rich tradesman), 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 | Less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 six | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 Less | fixed |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 baron | det |
| 7 | baron | baron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gate | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 gate | nmod:poss |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gate | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 castle | punct |
| 14 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 beggar | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beggar | amod |
| 17 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gate | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bought | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 25 bought | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 seat | det |
| 21 | baronial | baronial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 seat | amod |
| 22 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bought | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 bought | aux:pass |
| 25 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 passed | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 tradesman | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 tradesman | det |
| 28 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tradesman | amod |
| 29 | tradesman | tradesman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bought | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass out | past | the baron | baron's castle gate | year | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | buy | past · perfect · passive | a rich tradesman | the baronial seat | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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