Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 98
Such was the tutor's speech; it was a little long, but while he delivered it he had finished cutting the flute.
Who acts: Such, person · What happens: be, deliver, finish, cut · To what, where: speech, person, flute
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 (Such, person), 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 | Such | Such | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 speech | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speech | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tutor | det |
| 4 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speech | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 tutor | case |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 long | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 long | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 little | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 long | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finished | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 finished | cc |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 delivered | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delivered | nsubj |
| 17 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 finished | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delivered | obj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 finished | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 finished | aux |
| 21 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 long | advcl |
| 22 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 finished | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flute | det |
| 24 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cutting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 speech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Such | the tutor's speech | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | person | a little obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deliver | past | such | person | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | finish | past · perfect | such | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | cut | gerund | such not said here | the flute | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flute=Product |
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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